SKILLS SUMMARY
- Ability to take initiative, analyze issues, and solve problems
- Currently studying Japanese and Spanish
- Bilingual – Cantonese, English
- Auditing and Project Management experience - exposure to different business practices and managing projects of various sizes
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
- Proficient in Rails, SQL, HTML/CSS
- Experienced with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PageMaker, and QuarkExpress
- Knowledgeable in Python/Spark, Scheme, and Microsoft Office Products (including Excel, Projects, and Visio)
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Mathematics
Computer Science, Accounting
University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON Sep 2005 – 2013
- Relevant Courses: Design Patterns, Algorithms, Public Speaking, Introduction to Managerial Accounting, and Strategy
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Ranked 1st in the 2005 COIN (Chartered Accountancy) Challenge
- President’s Scholarship, Friar Lucia Entrance Award – awarded based on a greater than 90% average and extracurricular activities
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer
Motive Inc, San Francisco, CA, Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
- tech lead on rails and go software development of 7 engineers
- refactor of legacy rails app with new FE apis while maintaining 100% backwards compatibility with legacy third party integrations
- first engineer on new product vertical
Co-Founder
Luca Ventures Inc, Culver City, CA, August 2018 - Oct 2020
- reinventing accounting/reconciliation for mid size startups with lots of purchases
Performance and Data Engineering Consultant
Wheels Lab Inc, West Hollywood, CA, June 2019 - Feb 2020
- Performance Tuning in PostgreSQL / python / Go to reduce cost by over $10k / month
- Data pipeline planning, better location data modelling and rollout of a system that process loT events at scale
- Hardware rollout and testing that reduce cost by over $1 million / year
Rails and Data Engineering Consultant
Sensei Holdings, Inc, Santa Monica, CA, July 2018 - August 2019
- hydroponic farm data design
Director, Data
Showroom Inc, Culver City, CA Aug 2017 - June 2018
- data collection design - improved inventory accuracy to 98.5%
- various system-human-process integrations
- developed operational reporting features (Rails) with C-level execs, warehouse managers, designers, and product managers.
Senior Rails Engineer
Clutter Inc, Culver City, CA Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
- billing system design (Rails), redeveloped legacy system in 6 weeks while collecting money concurrently with old system without double billing, imported all legacy data with build in A-B pricing testing platform.
- financial data reconciliation (SQL)
- local tax compliance - gross receipt, payroll tax jurisdiction
- data system design
- accounting review and data preparations for series b fundraising
- Translate Japanese recipes to English
Software Developer
Shopify, Ottawa, ON May 2011 - Aug 2011, Jan 2012 – Feb 2016
- financial data reconciliation and reporting in SQL/custom reporting framework, as well as hadoop/spark/tableau
- data analysis for business decisions
- data collection and integrations (rails/SQL/python)
- billing system design and maintenance (rails)
- for a system that collects over $100 million annually
- managed end to end pipeline from data generation, reporting, to customer support
- data quality
- developed data quality framework
- found and fixed systematic problems
- over 15 million rows of errors upstream of data systems
Project Specialist
ING Life Japan, Tokyo, Japan Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
- Managing small projects within the division (technology)
- Working with different stakeholders (both internal and external) to address project concerns (planning)
- Monitoring and Managing project timeline and exceptions (execution)
- Working with different aspects of the project (legal, finance, compliance and technology)
- Responsible for preparations of various meetings, project discussions, and management decisions
Quality Assurance
CaseWare International, Toronto, ON Jan 2009 – Apr 2009
- Testing of auditing templates
- Developing test plans
Staff Accountant
KPMG LLP, Waterloo, ON Jan 2007 – Apr 2007, Jan 2008 – Apr 2008
- Performed audits, special reporting, fraud detection, and tax reporting services
- Improved audit efficiency by developing automated processes
ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS
Director of Logistics, Head Delegate
CUSEC, Montreal, ON Aug 2008 - Jan 2010
- Responsible for promotion and fundraising for the UW Campus
- Responsible for making things happen
Director
UW Badminton Club, Waterloo, ON Sep 2005 – Dec 2009
- Organizing club events such as socials, demos, and tournaments
- Upgraded UW Badminton Club’s website for easier update of news and events (http://badmintonclub.uwaterloo.ca)