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Software & Data Engineer

Graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, my most recent role was with physIQ as a Software Engineer.

Website: www.ken-wu.com
Phone: +1-217-904-9351
City: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Degree: Master of Science
Email: shwu235@gmail.com

As an engineer with a sincere dedication to fostering positive change, I have experience in coding across multiple languages such as Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, and HTML. My involvement in practical projects at work and school underscores my ability to apply these skills effectively.

Skills

Python 100%

Go 80%

JavaScript 80%

Java 88%

HTTP/CSS 90%

SQL 95%

Recommendations

Ken would be an asset to any company that values intelligent elegant solutions and the persistence that is required to achieve them. I was always impressed with his curiosity and ability to simplify complicated specs into well documented, tested and easy to read code. He had a immediate impact overhauling our python build tooling to use modern best practices leveraging nox and Gitlab CI. He then moved on to add new functionality to one of our internal projects that gave it access to measurements that weren't available previously. This opened the door to some game changing new analytics that were not possible prior. Finally I was most impressed with Ken's ability to identify and fix an error in our graph validation that prevents cycles. It really demonstrated his ability to drill down into something quite complicated and come away with the understanding to fix it. It would be a privilege to work with Ken again in the future.

Nick Flink

Director of Cloud Engineering, PhysIQ

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Summary

Shu-Hao (Ken) Wu

Innovative and deadline-driven Software/Date Engineer with 2+ years contribute to the development and implementation of engineering solutions.

Los Angeles, CA, USA
(217)904-9351
shwu235@gmail.com

Education

Master of Science & Information Science

2021 - 2023

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

Extracurricular Activities: HackIllinois
Created website NewsFlow using Python Dash featuring trending news and search bar for users to find articles based on keywords
Related Courses: Computer Network; Data Analysis; Data, Statistical Models, and Information; Database Systems; Programming for Analytics & Data Processing

Professional Experience

Software Engineer

2023 - Present

PolicyEngine, Remote, USA

Contributed to open-source project, engaging with global community of developers to enhance software functionality and address critical issues
Modified Jest default timeout, reducing false negatives for asynchronous operations, improving overall test accuracy

Software Engineer

2022 - 2023

PhysIQ, Chicago, Illinois

Crafted responsive Slack bot using Node.js, reducing onboarding time by 33% for employees to gather job-related content
Designed web application capacity calculator by using Python Flask for employees to calculate the available working hours
Enhanced cross-platform development and automate project building procedures by leveraging Python Nox library
Optimized Python methods used in pipelines, and improved output checks for test files, leading to enhanced efficiency in data querying performance
Resolved Kotlin and MySQL RESTful API backend data retrieval issues by debugging on Linux, updating MySQL queries, and refining Kotlin validation methods, boosting system reliability and access
Participated in developing unit conversion service, utilizing Go and gRPC protocol, improving real-time data exchange efficiency

Software Engineer

2020 - 2021

Ponddy Education Inc., Taipei, Taiwan

Designed Keras text classification model achieving 88% accuracy in predicting text categories, enhancing AI training
Developed scraping program in Python to collect data from over 10,000 articles, increasing research efficiency
Migrated PostgreSQL-based code to Django's ORM module to upgrade data processor, simplifying database interaction