Jess Fan
Passionate Software Engineer with background in full software development life-cycle
Fluent in Python, C++/C#, SQL, TensorFlow and PyTorch
Quick learner and team player focused on achieving objectives with speed and accuracy
Education
B.S. Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz - June 2022A.S. Computer Programming
Gavilan College, Gilroy - June 2020Experience
Principal Software Engineer
RiceTeaCatPanda - San Francisco, CA
October 2019 - Present- Led the design of a machine-learning focused CTF (Capture the Flag) competition
- Created a high traffic website, media distribution, API schema and endpoints, analytics, and visualization with Docker-based deployment automation.
- Supervised a team of 20+ developers and business analysts engaged in Project Sinensis with worldwide adoption and participations.
Skills: Python, Numpy, Skit-learn, Tensorflow, Go, Restful APIs, NLP, etc.
Data Science Intern
Bioclinica - Newark, NJ
June 2020 – August 2020- Provided comprehensive analysis and developed fully automated data cleaning solutions to consolidate, classify and identify unique hospitals and clinical sites around the world.
- Successfully integrated with ETL packages into Oracle data warehouse (10TB+).
- Participated in data cleaning and keyword extractions from physician profiles.
- Developed a new website and data collection service for physicians worldwide.
- Created data visualization graphics, translating complex data sets into comprehensive visual representations.
Skills: Python, AWS, SQL, React, Restful APIs, Power BI, Oracle
Software Engineer
Bay Area Community College Consortium - San Jose, CA
September 2018 - Present- Designed and hosted a scoreboard for students to input competition and practice scores.
- Implemented scoring automation and balancing systems.
- Taught students Python and Cybersecurity programming through fun and creative games.
Skills: Python, React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, DigitalOcean
Web Developer
4CE4 - San Jose, CA
June 2018 - August 2018- Designed the homepage for the company.
- Managed and created backend infrastructure with hosting web services.
Skills: WordPress, Cloudfare, HTML, CSS, Javascript
Skills
| Skill | Level |
|---|---|
| Python | 10/10 |
| HTML, JS, CSS | 10/10 |
| C++ / C# / C | 9/10 |
| Git / GitHub | 9/10 |
| PyTorch, Tensorflow | 8/10 |
| Power BI | 8/10 |
| Redis | 8/10 |
| SQL | 8/10 |
| Heroku | 7/10 |
| AWS / GCP / Azure | 7/10 |
| Node.JS | 7/10 |
| React | 7/10 |
Projects
Project Sinensis
Fast, scalable CTF platform
May 2020 - Present- Used Go and React to create a fast and efficient website for competition users
- Developed API schema and endpoints, along with authorization flows and user interactions
- Deployed and tested multiple versions of the platform for users
Jade AI
Creating an interactive chatbot
January 2018 - Present- Designed algorithms based on modern AI architectures in NLP
- Created a backend environment to run both a Flask-based website and Discord bot
- Designed, gathered data, and trained a model using Google's T5 algorithm
- Constructed an API for the service, hosted on GCP and Heroku.
- Used Supabase’s realtime PostgreSQL database and Redis to create fast and efficient data analytics.
NLP Data Repository
Scraping and normalizing data for various applications in NLP
January 2020 - Present- Collected a 400 million-entry dataset of multi-turn user conversations hosted on Kaggle
- Utilized regex and scikit-learn to clean all entries of toxic text, non-language sentences, and more to normalize the dataset.
Metastyle
Metalearning applied to neural style
June 2018 - August 2018- Contributed to the code base for Metastyle, developed by Dr. Chi Zhang, on GitHub
- Altered the feed-forward style-free representation algorithm to better pronounce style images’ features while using metalearning techniques to speed up training time.