About Me.
⛳️ Adaptive, Creatively Motivated, and Goal Oriented
📍 University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
🖥️ Computer Science Major, Statistics Minor 📊
🎓 Junior Year / Graduating in 2026
🏆 2x Hackathon Winner
My Projects 🛠️
Awards
Amazon Web Services x UofT Hackathon, First Place 🏆
November 29th, 2024
My teammates and I created Eventuary - a web app that lets University of Toronto students register for school events that match their interests by using personalized recommendations and scraping from several different event websites. It's employed with AWS Architecture like Lambda, DynamoDB, Bedrock, Kendra, and Cognito.
I led cloud architecture design decisions and developed the entire front-end web application. It was a great time learning to use Amazon Web Services while having actual solution architects on standby (thank god for y'all).
As winners, we're currently in talks with UofT faculty in regards to potentially implementing Eventuary into student life!
My Experience
2024
Software Engineer @ BalanceAI
Worked with Dr. Jang's research lab at UofT to gamify their AI literacy assessment platform for K-12 students, https://balanceai.ca. Increased user engagement by 50% through a new interactive map interface using React states, replacing the original navigation. Optimized backend dashboard functionality to display student data 2x faster from Google Firebase, enhancing accessibility for teachers viewing student data.
2023 - Present
Software Developer for LLMs @ DataAnnotation
Led multiple micro-development projects that advanced artificial intelligence models by utilizing languages/frameworks such as Python, Java, Swift, and React, enhancing my ability to rapidly acquire new technologies and apply innovative solutions. Wrote hundreds of high-quality tests and performed intensive code reviews, thoroughly assessing data points fed to the LLM.
2023
Software Engineering Intern @ Cloptim
Reduced customer business costs by $3,000 through AWS cloud resource utilization optimization. Designed an Apache Spark-based data pipeline from S3, with Databricks warehousing and Spark analytics. Created dynamic data visualization for clients using React.js and HTML/CSS.
Technologies
💡 See more on my Resume!
🏂 Other Stuff 🏔️💿
When I'm not coding, you can find me on the basketball court or in my home studio producing music.
I live in Seattle, Washington and also love hiking, lifting weights, and snowboarding.
Check out my beats at soundcloud.com/northcedar & drop a follow!