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Bio Education Work Project Technical Home of Michael Young BIO 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. Contact Info Email: [email protected] Technical Blog: blog.ayoungprogrammer.com GitHub: ayoungprogrammer EDUCATION Richmond Hill High School Graduated 2013 Activities President of Computer Science Club, DECA, Math Club, Chess Club Contests Cayley Math Contest (2010) Top 7th Nationally ECOO (2011) 10th Plae Finalist CCC Senior Stage 2 (2012) Bronze Finalist CCC Senior Stage 2 (2013) Bronze Finalist USACO (2013) Gold University of Waterloo Expected Graduation Date 2018 Degree Bachelor of Computer Science Activities Computer Science Club, Chess Club, Poker Studies Club, Rock Climbing Club, Entrepreneurship Society WORK EXPERIENCE Wish Position Software Engineer Intern Period May 2016 - August 2016 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 LinkedIn Position Software Engineer Intern Period January 2016 - April 2016 Location Mountain View, United States Description Developed a system for recommending thresholds for server uptime metrics Square Position Data Engineer Intern Period January 2015 - April 2015 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 Wish Position Software Engineer Intern Period May 2014 - August 2014 Location San Francisco, United States Description Developed a system for ordering products from merchants ($2,400,000 annual GMV) Developed a system for disputing chargebacks Crowdmark Position Developer 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 PROJECTS NLQuery Description A natural language query engine Link NLQuery YouShadow Description A platform for job shadowing Link YouShadow The CS Handbook Description A handbook of common algorithms and data structures Link The CS Handbook Safe Words Description A Chrome extension that blocks out swear words Link Safe Words Business Budget Description Simple budgeting tool Link Business Budget Expert Opinion Description See what experts have to say from public votes Link Expert Opinion TECHNICAL SKILLS C++ Experience 5 years Description Advanced knowledge of STL, used for contest programming experienced in software design Projects blog.ayoungprogrammer.com Java Experience 3 years Description Advanced knowledge of data structures. Used for 3 years during high school. Objective-C Experience 1 years Description Created an iOS game with Cocos2D Games Athlete’s Arena AS3 Experience 2 years Description Hobby game development. Familiarized with game programming patterns Games NeuropolX and Evolute JavaScript Experience 1 years Description Experienced in web development (eg. this site) Libraries Experienced with jQuery Node.js Experience 1 years Description Experienced in web development (eg. this site) Externals Experienced with Jade Template Engine and Stylus Ruby Experience 1 years Description Used for writing backend for Crowdmark Projects Exam OMR for Crowdmark Redis Experience 1 years Description Used for backend on this site Projects ayoungprogrammer.com PHP Experience 1 years Description Used for backend on thecshandbook.com Projects thecshandbook.com MySQL Experience 1 years Description Used for backend on thecshandbook.com Projects The CS Handbook AngularJS Experience 1 years Description Used for frontend on Business Budget and Expert Opinion Projects Business Budget Expert Opinion Python Experience 6 months Description Used for back-end services of Wish.com Backbone.js Experience 6 months Description Used for front-end services of Wish.com Running on node with Express, Jade and...