Experience

2023

Apple 

Software Engineer Intern (@ Apple Maps?)

• Developed a user-friendly front-end web portal for place searching with Vue.js, the composition API, Solr API, JavaScript, and SCSS, utilized by over thousands of Apple employees daily for efficient map data management
• Successfully implemented map layers, ensuring seamless integration and accurate representation of geographical data
• Engineered a robust search page and implemented search queries, facilitating quick and precise data retrieval

NextPlate ?️

Software Engineer

• Join a start-up that aims to reduce food waste by partnering with restaurants and selling food surplus at discounted prices
• Design and develop UI/UX interface for the help center client/admin portals using Figma
• Structure and develop the backend of help center portals with Node.js and Firebase
• Launch product that is currently being used by 50+ restaurants, including Subway, Jersey Mike’s, etc

Tera Thought ?

Senior Software Engineer

• Lead the team in structuring the mobile application–“Shareful”, a resource-sharing network, with MVVM architecture
• Implement UI components of the App for both Android and IOS using Kotlin, Android Studio Jetpack Compose, and Swift
• Implement backend features for the App using Firebase

Par Technology ?

QA Engineer Intern

• Developed an automated test suite to pinpoint defects, track bugs, and validate functionality for POS software
• Carried out the execution plan for Automated Regression Testing using JavaScript and prototyped automatic test script generation, which generated 20 automation test cases with trivial human intervention
• Completed 68 manual tests and 20 automation test cases with 4000+ lines of scripts and a test coverage rate of 80%
• Conducted investigations for deviations that occur in the testing results and determine the root causes

Tencent ?

Product Intern for WeTest

• Took charge of Business Development and Outsourcing, established partnerships and connections with more than 10 potential clients through Game Industry Conferences, business matching systems, and LinkedIn reach-outs 
• Proposed and facilitated B2B global marketing strategies for a game-testing Platform (WeTest) by Tencent 
• Wrote weekly blogs about Quality Assurance Services and Game-Testing, boosted public exposure by 300% 

USC Viterbi School of Engineering  ?

Course Producer for CSCI 310 (Software Engineering)

• Hold office hours to answer coding and project-related questions  
• Answer course-related questions on Piazza  
• Grade programming assignments and exams 

Jeffrey Liu1, Rajat Tandon1, Uma Durairaj1, Jiani Guo1, Spencer Zahabizadeh1, Sanjana Ilango1, Jeremy Tang1, Neelesh Gupta1, Zoe Zhou1, Jelena Mirkovic2. 2022. Did your child get disturbed by an inappropriate advertisement on YouTube?. In Proceedings of KDD Undergraduate Consortium (KDD-UC). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages.

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KDD Conference

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Innovation in Integrated Informatics Lab ?

Research Assistant (Supervisor: Prof. Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Ph.D. student: Ala Nekouvaght Tak)

• Conducted research about reinforcement learning for personalized thermal comfort systems
• Applied Markov assumption to RL agent decision process and used simple MLP to learn policy given system states
• Designed our own reward function based on power consumption, thermal comfort, and personalized control for this system
• Retrieved and managed intelligent agent data using Python & Influx DB

Ascend USC ?

Vice President of Finance (2021-2022) and the Co-Chair of Professional Development (2020-2021)

• Connected with professionals from corporations such as PWC, Deloitte & Boeing and hosted career development events
• Wrote budget plans, manage the funding, financial accounts, membership fees, and expenditures, and hosted fundraising events
• Designed and operated the Ascend official website