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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Mountain View, California, 2021/08 – 2022/12
  M.S. in Software Engineering (SE)
  - GPA: 3.78/4.0
  
• National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, 2017/09 – 2019/06
  M.B.A. in Information System (IM)
  - GPA: 4.03/4.30
  - Advisor: Prof. Chien-Chin Chen
  - Thesis
• National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan, 2011/09 – 2016/06
  B.S. in Management Information Systems (MIS)
  - Last 60 GPA: 3.59/4.0
  

Work Experience

• Software Engineer, 2023/02 – Present
  High Availbility Team, Pure Storage
  - Boosted data rebalance efficiency by 2.5x with algorithms that preserved read/write performance.
  - Deployed autonomous end-to-end test for evaluating rebalance speed under various I/O load scenarios.
  - Engineered user-facing tool to evaluate impact of blade additions on cluster performance, minimizing potential issues.
  - Saved 68% of machine hours by transforming 42% of hardware tests into simulation-compatible tests.
  - Crafted chaos test that randomly selects from 7 disruptive events to ensure high availability
• Software Engineer Intern (Full-Time), 2022/05 – 2022/08
  Game Play Team, Riot Games
  - Proposed new matching algorithms to enhance over 3 millions daily game matches quality measured by off role parity rate.
  - Improved off role parity rate by 54.1% at the cost of less than 6% increase in 95 percentile queue time.
  - Aggregated millions of game match and analyzed result using Python, pyshark, Java, and Databrick.
  - Invented next generation interface for over 100 millions monthly active players worldwide using Java, C++ JavaScript.
• Software Engineer, 2021/01 – 2021/08
  Front-End Infrastructure Team, Houzz
  - Developed site speed monitoring tool with google's lighthouse library using React.js and Node.js
  - Implemented site-monitoring hot plugging and extracted hundreds of metrics impacting user-perceived performance. - Containerized existing services with k8s and docker.
  - Managed platform for hundreds of engineers in whole firm to build, deploy, canary by integrating Jenkins, Github, Spinnaker.
  - Increased number of CI/CD pipeline by 100% for various testing scenarios, e.g. infrastructure testing.
• Software Engineer, 2019/09 – 2021/01
  U-Sandbox Team, Trend Micro
  - Provided virus scanning in customized sandbox environment by integrating VirtualBox API and Trend Micro core anti-virus service into automatic pipeline.
  - Increased the number of file types that the program can scan for viruses by 500%.
  - Expanded compressed file types by 12.5% by designing new decompression plugin.
  - Built out 34% of the total sandbox amounts by designing new procedure for Linux sandbox creation.
  
• Software Engineer (Part-Time), 2017/09 – 2019/08
  Office of International Affairs and Global MBA, National Taiwan University
  - Reduced retrieval times by 80% by summarizing student information from various data sources.
  - Produced cross-platform portable application without additional installation using Electron and Node.js.
  - Automated CI/CD by integrating Github API with the Appveyor platform.
  
• Software Engineer Intern, 2018/07 – 2018/08
  Pedestrian Detection Team, China Unicom
  - Developed an approach to estimate customer volume using real-time video from surveillance camera
  - Implemented the state of art model and increased performance by over 50%
  - Built-up online labeling tool for annotation usage
• Software Engineer Intern, 2017/07 – 2017/09
  Frontend Infrastructure, Cepave
  - Reconstructed front-end framework and develop new features and testing function
  - Developed 2 SPA pages ahead of schedule
  - Saved hours of front-end style testing with mock-up server
• Informatic HelpDesk Intern, 2013/02 – 2014/08
  IT Team, DHL
  - Assisted hundreds of internal and external customers to solve IT-related problem.
  - Developed an in-house web tool to assist customer service in quickly retrieving mailing information, including country codes.
• Technical Assistant, 2012/07 – 2012/08
  Firmware Department, CyberPower
  - Proposed a light-weighted POC product on Linux with only necessary packages installed.

Honors and Awards

• Fintech Contest - Best Team Award, The Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank Fintech Contest, 2017
  Claims the best team award among 56 paricipating teams from all universities in Taiwan.
• Project Management Contest - 2nd place Award, Intelligence Project Management Contest, 2014
  Claims 2nd place award among 20 paricipating teams.

Research Experience

• Information Retrieval and Text Mining Lab, NTU, 2017/09 – 2019/06
  Advisor: Prof. Chien-Chin Chen
  Topic: A Deep Learning Model for Extracting Live Streaming Video Highlights using Audience Messages
  - Published on ACM AICCC 2019 (Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference).
  - Outperformed other prediction models by 40% on precision and 110% on recall.
  - Parsed 37 million user messages in 491 videos from the Twitch platform.
  - Experimented with multiple pre-processing methods and highlight prediction models.
  

Leadership & Activities

• Substitute Military Service, Tainan, Taiwan, July. 2016 - July. 2017
  - An alternative to mandatory military service
  
• Teaching Assistant, Dept. of IM, NTU, 2018
  - Information Retrieval and Text Mining (Fall 2018), instructed by Prof. Chien-Chin Chen.
  
• Leader of Badminton Team, Dept. of MIS, NCCU, 2014
  - Led team members (college students) to learn team-working and self-improving.
  
• Student Volunteer, International Volunteer Association, NCCU, 2013
  - Charity camp for countryside elementary school.
  - Designed 4 (45 minutes long) diversified courses to teach disadvantaged children.
  
• Director of Event Planning, sign language club in the affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University, 2009-2010
  - Planning events with club representative from other senior high schools.
  - Organized a joint performance with 31 senior high schools for more than 1,300 audience.
  

Relevant Courses

• Machine Learning / Deep Learning
  - Convex Optimization (A+), Information Retrieval and Text Mining (A-), Machine Learning (B+), Data Mining (A+), Applied Deep Learning (A+), Statistical Learning：Theory and Applications (A+), Digital Speech Processing(A+), Machine Learning and Signal Processing(A), Data Science For Software Engineering (A+), Introduction to Digital Speech Processing (A)
• Computer System / Cloud
  - Cloud Computing (A+), Software Design and Architecture (A-), Foundation of Computer System (A), System Programming (A+), Foundation of Software Engineering (B+), Software Verification and Testing (B+)
• Fundamental Knowledge
  - Data Structure, Algorithm (A+), Probability (A+), Calculus, Linear Algebra (A), Windows Programming(A+), Business Data Communication, Data Management System, Programming with HTML5(A+), Web Programming(A+), Statistics.

Skills & Test Scores

• Programming Languages: C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
• Tools and Environment: Git, Jenkins, Linux, Pytest, Pytorch, SQL, Tensorflow, Vue, Docker, K8s
• GRE: 330/340  Oct 2019 ( Verbal 160/170   Quantitative 170/170   Analytical Writing 3.5/6.0 )
• TOEFL iBT: 103/120  Mar 2020 ( Reading 30/30   Listening 27/30   Writing 23/30   Speaking 23/30)