Christopher Weicong Hong
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www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-w-hong https://github.com/chrish2019 EDUCATION
Master of Artificial Intelligence
Illinois Institute of Technology, GPA: 3.75/4.0, 01/2020 – 12/2020 B.S. Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology, GPA: 3.9/4.0, 01/2018 – 12/2020 EXPERIENCE
Data Science Practicum
Accenture, 08/2020 – 12/2020, Chicago, IL
• Collecting & interpreting raw data from Life Sciences Industry using Python and Jupyter Notebook
• Conducting statistical analysis and modeling to inform business decisions making using Pandas, Scikit-Learn and Matplotlib Machine Learning Research
Illinois Institute of Technology, 08/2020 – 12/2020, Chicago, IL
• Replicated and extended state of the art sentiment analysis on Amazon product reviews using LSTM
• Reproducing and extending analysis of redistricting reform in Virginia using Python, Pandas and GerryChain Data Engineering Intern
University at Buffalo, 06/2020 – 08/2020, Buffalo, NY
• Ingested and processed Material Science data using Vizier, Python and Scikit-Learn
• Analyzed, integrated, modeled and stored data for future access using Vizier, Python and SQL SKILLS
• Programming languages: Python (proficient), SQL (proficient), Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, R, Bash
• Frameworks: Flask, TensorFlow, PyTorch, NLTK, spaCy, Scikit-Learn, Spark
• Software: Linux, Git, Docker, Airflow, Tableau, EMR, Redshift, EKS, SageMaker CERTIFICATIONS
• Udacity: Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree Udacity: Data Engineering Nanodegree
• Udacity: Front End Web Developer Nanodegree Udacity: Natural Language Processing Nanodegree PROJECTS
Casting Agency
- Created a database-backed APIs that allow a company to create movies and manage and assign actors to those movies.
- Used SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL to build out data models and database.
- Designed and built REST APIs to control and manage the web app in existing data models using Flask.
- Implemented role-based access management strategies to properly secure APIs for use in front end apps using JWT.
- Deployed the web app using Heroku.
Travel App
- Created an asynchronous, dynamic travel weather planning app that helped users plan trips by generating weather forecasts for the places they would be visiting.
- Used HTML to create the structure for the front-end UI and used responsive layouts, Flexbox, CSS Grid for styling.
- Combined user data and sources from Geonames, Weatherbit and Pixaby APIs to update the UI using JavaScript.
- Used Node.JS and Express to build the backend server.
- Used Webpack for automating build tasks and cached server data and website functionality using Service Worker. Cloud Data Warehouse
- Created a data warehouse that allowed an analytics team to find insights of what songs their users were listening to.
- Modeled user activity and song data using PostgreSQL.
- Built an ETL pipeline using Python that extracted JSON data from S3, staged in Redshift, transformed and loaded into fact and dimensional tables.