I am currently a student at the University of Waterloo in the Honours Computer Science program. I have had a strong passion for programming since I attended my first class at 11. Over the past years I have accumulated programming experience in a broad range of areas from game development to image processing apps to web development. I am self-driven, determined and aspire to one day start my own company.
| Email: | michaelyoung1995@gmail.com |
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| Technical Blog: | blog.ayoungprogrammer.com |
| GitHub: | ayoungprogrammer |
| Graduated | 2013 | ||||||||||
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| Activities | President of Computer Science Club, DECA, Math Club, Chess Club | ||||||||||
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| Expected Graduation Date | 2018 |
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| Degree | Bachelor of Computer Science |
| Activities | Computer Science Club, Chess Club, Poker Studies Club, Rock Climbing Club, Entrepreneurship Society |
| Position | Software Engineer Intern |
| Period | May 2016 - August 2016 |
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| Location | San Francisco, United States |
| Description |
Implemented security features into platform (two factor authentication, rolled out 100% HTTPS, httpOnly and secure cookies) Created pipeline for automatically tagging products using a random forest classifier |
| Position | Software Engineer Intern |
| Period | January 2016 - April 2016 |
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| Location | Mountain View, United States |
| Description | Developed a system for recommending thresholds for server uptime metrics |
| Position | Data Engineer Intern |
| Period | January 2015 - April 2015 |
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| Location | San Francisco, United States |
| Description |
Created a system for selecting columns and tables to be replicated on the data pipeline from
production databases into analytic databases. Transferred 100TB of data from Hadoop to Amazon Glacier |
| Position | Software Engineer Intern |
| Period | May 2014 - August 2014 |
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| Location | San Francisco, United States |
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Developed a system for ordering products from merchants ($2,400,000 annual GMV) Developed a system for disputing chargebacks |
| Position | Developer |
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| Period | March 2013 - August 2013 |
| Location | Toronto, Canada |
| Description |
Designed an OMR (optical mark reader) algorithm to scan exams and extract ROI Created an extensive automated testing suite |
| Description | A natural language query engine |
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| Link | NLQuery |
| Description | A platform for job shadowing |
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| Link | YouShadow |
| Description | A handbook of common algorithms and data structures |
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| Link | The CS Handbook |
| Description | A Chrome extension that blocks out swear words |
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| Link | Safe Words |
| Description | Simple budgeting tool |
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| Link | Business Budget |
| Description | See what experts have to say from public votes |
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| Link | Expert Opinion |
| Experience | 5 years |
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| Description | Advanced knowledge of STL, used for contest programming |
| Projects | blog.ayoungprogrammer.com |
| Experience | 3 years |
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| Description | Advanced knowledge of data structures. Used for 3 years during high school. |
| Experience | 1 years |
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| Description | Created an iOS game with Cocos2D |
| Games | Athlete's Arena |
| Experience | 1 years |
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| Description | Experienced in web development (eg. this site) |
| Libraries | Experienced with jQuery |
| Experience | 1 years |
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| Description | Experienced in web development (eg. this site) |
| Externals | Experienced with Jade Template Engine and Stylus |
| Experience | 1 years |
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| Description | Used for writing backend for Crowdmark |
| Projects | Exam OMR for Crowdmark |
| Experience | 1 years |
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| Description | Used for backend on this site |
| Projects | ayoungprogrammer.com |
| Experience | 1 years |
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| Description | Used for backend on thecshandbook.com |
| Projects | thecshandbook.com |
| Experience | 1 years |
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| Description | Used for backend on thecshandbook.com |
| Projects | The CS Handbook |
| Experience | 1 years |
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| Description | Used for frontend on Business Budget and Expert Opinion |
| Projects | Business Budget Expert Opinion |
| Experience | 6 months |
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| Description | Used for back-end services of Wish.com |
| Experience | 6 months |
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| Description | Used for front-end services of Wish.com |