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Software Engineering Intern

Data Acquisition (Site Reliability Engineering)

November 2021 – February 2022

Improved the reliability of a URL fetching service that serves billions of requests per day, used primarily by web crawlers.
  • Increased the availability of a 'hostname to shard number' resolver from 99.99% to 99.999%, reducing its expected annual downtime from 53 minutes to 5 minutes.
  • Designed and unit-tested new C++ interfaces and a Spanner database schema to phase out software anti-patterns.
  • Implemented a scalable multithreaded cache refresher in C++ which could potentially reduce data staleness from minutes to milliseconds.
  • Planned production rollout and testing procedures, including writing Bash scripts to automatically generate traffic and extract, normalise and compare contents from different storage services for verifying correctness, end-to-end.
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  • Spanner iconSpanner
  • Bash iconBash
  • SQL iconSQL
  • GoogleTest iconGoogleTest

Education

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Bachelor of Computer Science @ University of New South Wales

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022

  • High distinction average WAM (GPA).
  • Project team lead in the Computer Science & Engineering Society (CSESoc).

Academic Awards & Hackathons

  • Faculty of Engineering Dean’s Award (x2)

    2020, 2021

    For ranking in the top 1.5% in academic performance out of ~6700 students in UNSW's School of Engineering.

  • Atlassian COMP2521 1st place prize

    2020

    For achieving the highest mark in COMP2521 (Data Structures and algorithms) out of 400+ engineering students.

  • Macquarie Bank SENG2021 1st place prize

    2021

    For achieving the highest mark in SENG2021 (Software Engineering Design Workshop) out of 159 software engineering students.

  • Accenture 'Hack for Good' Hackathon 1st Place

    2021

    Worked in a team of 4 to develop a prototype for an education platform driven by deep learning that automatically tailors a curriculum for young children with ASD. Achieved 1st place out of 37 other participating teams from across Australia.

  • Google Chronicle Hackathon 2nd Place

    2021

    Worked in a team of 4 to build a proof-of-concept application for an automated time scheduler system. This project won 2nd place out of around 40 other teams.

  • CSESoc Annual Flagship Hackathon 2nd Place

    2021

    Worked in a team of 4 to develop a prototype for an educational content delivery web app that recommends lessons to students with learning disabilities. We achieved 2nd place out of more than 60 participating teams.

  • Academic Awards Achievement Scholarship

    2019

    For achieving the highest ATAR in high school.