KEVIN LY

408-***-**** • add2in@r.postjobfree.com • LinkedIn • GitHub

TECHNICAL SKILLS

JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, REST, TypeORM, React, Redux, MongoDB, Express, Node, HTML, CSS, Postgres, SQL, Python, Ruby, Rails, Git, Jest, TS-Mockito.

WORK & EXPERIENCE

Valencia Data

Software Engineer January 2020 – May 2020

● Provided startups with financial insights on important ideas such as expenses, revenue, and burn by building a web application that connects to various financial streams, ingests and reshapes monetary data, and performs real-time calculations.

● Calculated accounting standards such as cashflow and burn rate using aggregated financial data and built out accurate expense and revenue projections taking in considerations such as exponential growth, hiring periods, investments, rounds of funding, etc.

● Notified users when finances were out of the norm by designing and building a custom notification system where users may choose what subject they would like to be notified for, when to be notified, and by which medium to receive the notification.

● Enabled communication from the client facing frontend application to backend services by writing well defined GraphQL queries and mutations.

● Ensured safe deployment of new features by writing unit and integration tests using Jest and TS-Mockito. PGH Wong Engineering, Inc.

Electrical Engineer November 2017 – June 2019

● Automated data analyzation and visualization ultimately reducing time and effort while also improving decision making capabilities by writing VBA scripts to do repetitive and time consuming tasks.

● Designed multimillion dollar, high-powered substations to safely and efficiently provide electric power for use in mass transit systems. Projects include BART, Caltrain, LA Metro, and Valley Metro Rail.

● Assisted in writing, reading, and editing Basis of Design and Basis of Analysis technical documents for the Electrical Engineering discipline which served as the foundation plans for the projects they represented. NATCAR

Autonomous Car Senior Design Project September 2016 - June 2017

● Collaborated with team members to design and build an autonomous battery-powered vehicle using a microcontroller, servos, motors, cameras, and Bluetooth hardware and C procedural programming software.

● Wrote the navigation software in C for the vehicle which analyzed sensor data and used a PID feedback control system to ensure swift and accurate error correction allowing for smoother navigation and faster course completion time. PROJECTS

StreetX – A StockX clone Full Stack Web Application. Live GitHub JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, React, Redux, Python, CSS, HTML

● Created an e-commerce website for streetwear that behaves similarly to a stock exchange which features a variety of detailed products that a user may buy, sell, or simply browse.

● Integrated the StockX API hosted on a Python Flask server to produce product data that continually fetches and updates itself based on live product prices mimicking a live market.

● Through Active Record associations, enabled product exchanging where users can place “bids” on items they wish to purchase and place “asks” on items they wish to sell.

● Implemented a fully functional Search feature using Ajax calls and Active Record queries to return precise product results. Travel Pack – A travelling inspired Full Stack application. Live GitHub JavaScript, MongoDB, Express, React, Redux, Node, AWS S3, CSS, HTML

● Built a travel planning application that encompasses photo sharing, expense distributing, and schedule planning.

● Created CRUD capabilities for multiple features such as groups, schedules, and events which allows users to have full control of their travel plans allowing for quick and easy planning for any pack’s adventures.

● Enabled AWS photo and video uploading in group channels for all other participants to download and share with each other. EDUCATION

University of California, Davis

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering Graduated June 2017

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