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Kevin Chou Software Developer

t: 650-***-**** e: ****.*********@*****.*** a: San Francisco, California Website Portfolio Work Experience Backend Data, Actuarial Science 2016 - 2019 Willis Towers Watson Software Developer Visual Basic, Fortran, SQLite3, ORM, TDD

Develop Quantify, a data management and valuation software; responsible for creating custom codebases for clients with complex plans and data & revamping/maintaining codebases and data pipelines for batch processing into analytics database

Program logic to test/validate data, apply data assumptions, calculate liabilities & produce financial reports

**improved system’s reliability of producing consistent results

Convert programming from legacy systems to new systems & build framework using backend/database technologies **improved system’s maintainability for team

Review/refactor code for accuracy, readability and time-efficiency **improved system’s scalability with increasing size of data; reduced runtime for a codebase from 12 to 4 hours

Create documentation for using programs, design limitations and ongoing technical issues Freelance Engineering Projects 2015 - 2019

Automation & Web-Scraping Visual Basic, jQuery

Code script to scrape parcel & product data from DPD International Tracking Service, Farfetch, Net-a-Porter & SSENSE via XML HTTP requests **cut daily time used from hours to minutes

Code script to update the master inventory data from daily orders data

Develop program to scrape data for 400+ stocks and options from Yahoo and Google sites, to screen and make trade/hedge decisions according to Black-Scholes theory Full Stack Web Projects 2019 - 2020

Want.com JavaScript, postgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, React, Redux

Clone the style and functionality of the e-commerce website Wish.com; features include adding reviews, editing items to shopping cart and searching products by name & theme

Implement infinite-scroll to fetch products from server to mimic index page 3d-Minesweeper JavaScript, ThreeJS, ThreeJSx, Canvas

Utilize a graph data structure and recursive search algorithm to identify adjacent vacant cubes

Integrate ThreeJS libraries to apply custom event handlers with raycasting to interface cube objects Multi-Go JavaScript, MongoDB, React, Redux, Node.js, Canvas, WebSockets

Create a game server to play variations of the classical board game Go; custom settings include variable number of players, board sizes and grid layouts

Synchronize lobby page, chat messaging and move coordination via websocket and server requests Skills React.js, Redux, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Rails, SQL Education University of Southern California Bachelor of Arts in Economics Los Angeles, CA

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