EXPERIENCE

Global Action Alliance, Inc., Senior Fullstack Developer

Data aggregation system providing public-health consultancy Built dashboard interfaces for 5 clients featuring data visualization, comprehensive interactions, account management, etc. Technologies used: React (Redux), TypeScript, HTML, CSS Architected efficient data-modeling and implemented micro-servicing backend server to provide robust, scalable, and highly-available business service. Technologies used: Node.js (Express), AWS (EC2), NoSQL (MongoDB) Engineered data processing pipelines to handle the collection, analysis, and refreshing of unstructured data points. Technologies used: Python (Selenium, Pandas), Flask Leading a development team of 8 enigneers. Collaborated closely with product managers and designers to define project goals and roadmap. Held weekly sprints & retrospectives and followed continuous integration methodology, with which we achieved a 20% reduction in development cycle time New York, NY

Aug. 2021 - Present

OneNexus, Co-Founder

Socializing platform to promote user’s networking & up-skilling in a community Built company’s customer-facing mobile app that allowed users to conveniently advertize skills, indicate preferences, schedule meetings, and further professional relationships. Technologies used: Flutter Implemented a RESTful server to support user-skill matching algorithm. Technologies used: Firebase, Node.js New York, NY

Jul. 2020 - Aug. 2021

Book Club, (Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Smart recommender giving holistic book suggestion based on club members’ preferences Developed a web interface that enabled interactive preference controls and presented recommendation results. Devised an IR system using algorithms of TF-IDF vectorization, Cosine Similarity, SVD, etc., to provide comprehensive ad-hoc recommendations from inputted preferences of books, authors and genres Featured in the class’s Hall of Fame (three winners out of over 40 teams) New York, NY

Spring 2021

Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech, (Python, Sci-kit Learn) Characterizing QAnon user engagement, spread, and content following Reddit bans Implemented collection and analysis pipelines for over 13 million Reddit posts Trained AI models including Logistic Regression, NLP, LDA, etc. for quantitative and qualitative analyses Co-authored a paper contributing to the literature on deplatforming and spread of QAnon conspiracy Publication: Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Vol. 6, No. CSCW1, Article 53. Publication date: April 2022 Link: doi.org/10.1145/3512900

New York, NY

May. 2021 - Sept. 2021

PROJECTS

EDUCATION

Cornell University

Master of Engineering in Information Science GPA: 3.6 Grader of INFO 5350-Behavioral Economics

Relevant Coursework: Networked & Distributed Systems, Security & Privacy in the Wild, Applied Machine Learning New York, NY

Sept. 2019 - May. 2021

University of Southern California

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science GPA: 3.3 Dean’s List Fall 2018 & Spring 2019

Los Angeles, CA

Aug. 2015 - May. 2019

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Frontend

Backend

Other Tools

React (Redux), TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 (SCSS), Flutter, Webpack Node.js, Python, Java, C++, NoSQL, SQL, Bash

AWS, Linux, Sci-kit Learn, Git, Docker

TAIXIANG ZENG

New York, NY +1-213-***-**** ad43ac@r.postjobfree.com H-1B Work Visa github.com/MaximilianZeng linkedin.com/in/taixiang-zeng/