Justin Liu
Brooklyn, New York
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imjustliu
liujustin
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of
Technology, Bachelor of Science
in Software Engineering
May 2020
Honors: cum laude (GPA: 3.55/4.0)
SKILLS
Technical
JavaScript
Python
Node
HTML
CSS/Sass
Java
Swift
GraphQL
SQL
Frameworks
React
Redux
Vue
Express
Flask
Elasticsearch
Tools
Git
Redis
MongoDB
Enzyme
Jest
AWS Lambda
Storybook
Docker
Languages
English (Native)
Cantonese (Native)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Web Developer Intern, Next Jump
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 New York, New York
Designed and implemented a Date Time Picker component in Vue used by Fortune 500 clients that significantly decreased the number of travel booking support tickets
Implemented a switch that allowed for toggling between old and new date picker to mitigate production issues
Software Engineer Co-op, Amplify Education
Jan 2019 – May 2019 Brooklyn, New York
Built 20+ reusable components that were used across all student assessment applications to support consistency
Developed and tested two student assessments in React, Redux and Node while implementing features requested by designers and product leaders Wrote a Python script that updated 100+ MySQL database entries with incorrect/missing assessment scores
Organized meetings with product manager and developers from other teams to discuss project requirements
Engineering Intern, Vox Media
May 2018 – Aug 2018 New York, New York
Built a new web application in Vue for managing feature flags in Vox Media’s CMS Web application was used to boost admin productivity and reduce reliance on engineers to maintain feature flags
Refactored an existing Redis data structure model and performed a database migration on 500+ data entries to store new feature flag data Implemented a REST API in Express to expose data from Redis to improve reusability
Software Engineer Co-op, Amplify Education
May 2017 – Dec 2017 Brooklyn, New York
Developed and managed burstbase.net, which was used by educators weekly, providing necessary instruction material
Modernized a legacy Java web application to React and Python to allow for improved maintainability, reusability and user experience for 600+ educators PROJECTS
My Kitchen Recipes, https://github.com/liujustin/MyKitchenRecipes An iOS application that searches for relevant recipes based on ingredients one has in their kitchen
Simply Search, https://github.com/liujustin/Simply-Search A web application built in Python, Flask, MongoDB and Elasticsearch that allows for user registration and custom search of saved information CoinIt!, https://github.com/liujustin/CoinIt
A real-time, web application built using React, Node, MongoDB and Express that tracked and helped visualize the rank and price of the top 10 cryptocurrencies GitHub Approval Checker,
https://github.com/liujustin/github_approval_checker Open source, lambda-based webhook built in Python, Serverless, and AWS Lambda that overrode failed or blocked status checks on GitHub pull requests to allow for merging into the master branch