Work Experience

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Software Engineer

Core Data Foundations SRE

January 2023 – Present

Just started.
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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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Associate Software Developer

WiseTech Academy

July 2021 – October 2021

Developed API and UI for a learning management system, WiseTech Academy.
  • Applied test-driven development with NUnit to implement REST APIs for a user and content management system using C#, ASP.NET Core and SQL Server.
  • Implemented a bulk enrolment time-saving feature, allowing .CSV and .XLSX files to be uploaded to create users and new course enrolments with dry-run results preview and error reporting.
  • Developed content management interfaces using ASP.NET Razor pages, jQuery and SCSS.
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Technical Architect

May 2021 – Jan 2022

Developing an educational platform that tailors lessons for young children with ASD for the Autism Awareness charity organisation.
  • Built a prototype of the product, achieving 1st place in Accenture's 2021 hackathon out of 37 teams, and later pitched the project to Accenture to acquire funding for continued development.
  • Implemented a lesson builder interface for developing reusable therapy sessions, reducing work that previously would take hours to just minutes.
  • Implemented a content management GraphQL API using Node.js with TypeScript, Express and MongoDB.
  • Formed core requirements and designed a concept for a neural network backing the platform's learning recommendation engine.
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Academic Tutor

Data Structures & Algorithms (COMP2521)

June 2020 – May 2021

Taught Data Structures and Algorithms (COMP2521) in trimester 2 and 3 in 2020 and trimester 1 in 2021.
  • Delivered two 1-hour online tutorials to 26 students each week.
  • Delivered 6 hours of lab demonstrations to over 70 students each week.
  • Volunteered for additional help sessions and answering online course forum questions.
  • Achieved a student satisfaction rating of 5.74/6.00 in the first term of teaching, with the average rating being 5.21/6.00 in the School of Engineering.
  • Achieved a student satisfaction rating of 5.89/6.00 in the second term of teaching, with the average rating being 5.14/6.00 in the School of Engineering.
  • Achieved a student satisfaction rating of 5.89/6.00 in the third term of teaching, with the average rating being 5.30/6.00 in the School of Engineering.
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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