Jasmine “lnishan” Chen

Dedicated, self-motivated and proficient software engineer with hands-on experience working with production-scale datasets and services in notable firms. Led teams and won numerous awards in programming competitions.

Career Summary

• Software Engineer at Google Taipei.
• Software Engineering Intern at Google USA.
  • Expanded a large-scale testing framework used by Google YouTube and Search Infrastructure developers.
• R&D Intern at Synopsys Taiwan.
  • Designed, implemented and analyzed graph algorithms on production-scale datasets.
  • Rated Best Intern of the Year and presented the work in Synopsys Shanghai.
• 11 years of experience in competitive programming. Led numerous teams and gave lectures.
  • Received 20+ national/regional awards in programming competitions.
  • Curated a well-received resource collection: "Awesome Competitive Programming" (2,500+ stars on GitHub).
• 3 years of experience in gaming industries.
  • Wrote keyboard lighting effects, implemented website designs, managed servers and coordinated events.
• Created, administered and managed multiple websites with decent web traffic.

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Contents

• Contact
• Education
• Skills
• Experience
• Honors
• Projects
• Talks
• Trivia

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Contact

Languages: English (fluent with neutral accent, TOEIC 940/990), Chinese (native)

• Email: [email protected]
• GitHub @lnishan
• LinkedIn @lnishantw
• Twitter @lnishantw

Education

• National Chiao Tung University
  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering (Sep 2014 － Jan 2018), Management Science (Sep 2012 － Jun 2014)
  • Bachelor's Thesis: SQLGitHub (Python, 2017), a project mentored by Mozilla to make managing GitHub organizations easier. Features a SQL-like syntax to fetch aggregate data from GitHub API. Wrote a SQL parser from scratch.
  • GPA: 4.01/4.30
  • 5 Academic Achievement Awards (Top 5% in class)
  • 2 Curricular Scholarships (Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures)
  • Teaching Assistant, Object-Oriented Programming
  • Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Discrete Mathematics, Probabilities, Operating Systems, Computer Organization, Computer Networks, Computer Graphics, Computer Security, Database Systems, System/Network Administration Practice, Parallel Programming, Human Computer Interaction

Skills

• Areas
  • Algorithms, Data Structures, Backend Development, Software Engineering, Parallel Computing, Web Development, System Administration
• Languages
  • C++, C, Python, Bash, Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL)
• OSes
  • Windows (Cygwin), macOS, Linux, FreeBSD

Experience

• Google
  Software Engineer
  Taipei City, Taiwan, May 2018 –

  • C, C++, Systems Programming
  • Chrome OS Media

• Google
  Software Engineering Intern
  Cambridge, MA, USA, Jun 2017 － Sep 2017

  • Python, Software Testing, Infrastructures
  • Expanded a large-scale integration testing framework used across services at Google, including YouTube Infrastructures and Search Infrastructures, to support and facilitate iterative development.
  • Wrote an extension that monitors local code changes and automatically recompiles, redeploys, and retests services.
  • Shortened workflow of iterative testing by 1 – 8 minutes (or 10 – 20x) on each retest.
  • Worked with Live developers to test and enhance the extension, which also led to improvements of test cases.

• Synopsys
  R&D Intern
  Taipei City, Taiwan, Jul 2016 － Aug 2016

  • C/C++, Algorithms, Shell Scripting, Graph Visualization, Memory Profiling
  • Designed, implemented, and analyzed a novel, efficient, scalable graph algorithm that speeded up Nodal Analysis by 120% and reduced its memory usage by 47% on datasets used in production.
  • Performed extensive profiling, data analysis and 3D graph visualization on the effects of the algorithm.
  • Wrote several shell scripts and a custom memory allocator and for fully automated testing and profiling.
  • Wrote massif-cherrypick (C++, 2016), a Valgrind extension to analyze partial memory consumptions.
  • Rated Best Intern of The Year and presented the work in Synopsys Shanghai.

• ITSA E-tutor
  Problem Reviewer
  Remote/Tainan, Taiwan, Apr 2016 － Dec 2016

  • Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics
  • Reviewed 120 algorithmic problems on ITSA E-tutor, an online learning platform initiated by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.
  • Examined problem statements, assessed feasibility and correctness of solutions, and validated test cases.

• Cooler Master
  Independent Contractor
  Taipei City, Taiwan, Apr 2016 － Jun 2016

  • C++, Windows API, C++ SDK, Time-Driven Programming
  • Programmed LED lighting effects on MasterKeys Pro (keyboard) with its C++ SDK and Windows API.
  • Attained animations with smooth gradient transitions with advanced time-driven programming.

• 4Gamers
  Part-time Internship
  Taipei City, Taiwan, Jan 2014 － Aug 2014

  • IT, Web Development
  • General IT Assistance, including setting up PCs and troubleshooting issues.
  • Implemented professional web designs with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
  • Assisted many Twitch celebrity streamers (5,000 - 100,000 followers) in partnerships, sponsorships, stream moderation and other issues.

• eGamers
  Part-time Internship, Community Coordinator
  Remote, Jul 2012 － Dec 2013

  • IT, Web Development, Community Coordination
  • General IT Assistance, including setting up PCs and troubleshooting issues.
  • Wrote a simple form management system for hosting tournaments and a couple handy tools for news publishing with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.
  • Assisted many Twitch celebrity streamers (5,000 - 100,000 followers) in partnerships, sponsorships, stream moderation and other issues.

• i-Feels.net
  Cofounder, Administrator, Developer
  Remote/Hong Kong, Apr 2006 － Feb 2008

  • Visual Basic, PHP, MySQL, Website Mangagment
  • Cofounded i-Feels.net and its predecessor ODB - a small development studio with friends from Hong Kong. i-Feels.net was one of the most popular forums in Hong Kong, having 60,000+ registered members and being amongst the top 500 websites in Hong Kong according to Alexa Traffic Rank.
  • Administered a number of other websites and forums with moderate web traffic during that period of time.
  • More information can be found on this Wiki page.

Honors

Academic Performances

• Academic Achievement Award
  Top 5% in class in terms of overall grades

  • 2016 Spring, 2015 Fall, 2015 Spring, 2014 Fall, 2014 Spring

• Curricular Scholarship
  Top 5% in class for the “Core Subjects” designated by the department

  • Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures

Problem Solving (Algorithms & Data Structures)

Been the team leader and main coder in all the following contests:

• ACM-ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest)
  • Honorable Mention, 2015/Taipei
  • Honorable Mention, 2015/Hanoi
  • Honorable Mention, 2012/Kaohsiung
• National Collegiate Programming Contest
  • 3rd Place, 2015
  • Honorable Mention, 2012
• ITSA National Programming Contest
  • Honorable Mention, 2015
  • 11th Place, 2014
• National Problem Solving Contest
  • Finalist, 2011 (15th Place)
  • Finalist, 2010 (9th Place)
  • 5th Place, 2008
  • 4th Place, 2007
• Taipei Software Programming Contest
  • 3rd Place, 2011
  • Honorable Mention, 2009
• Taipei Information Proficiency Competition
  • 3rd Prize, 2011
  • 3rd Prize, 2010
  • Honorable Mention, 2009

Web Development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP/MySQL)

• National Collegiate Programming Contest - Application Software
  • 3rd Place, 2015
  • Honorable Mention, 2014
• Taiwan School Cyberfair
  • Bronze (3rd Place), 2010

GUI (Visual Basic)

• Information Technology Month - Creative Software Programming Contest
  • 4th Place, 2010/National/Individual
  • 4th Place, 2009/National/Team
  • 4th Place, 2009/Northern Region/Individual

Projects

• Awesome Competitive Programming (Markdown, 2016)

  • Markdown, Algorithms, Data Structures
  • A curated list of awesome resources for Competitive Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures. Currently starred by 2,500+ and forked by 600+ GitHub users worldwide. This project was aimed to connect the world to information - and it did :) .

• lni::vector (C++, 2016)

  • C++, Data Structures
  • An optimized, almost-C++17-compliant std::vector implementation. Up-to-149% more efficient than counterparts when tested on gcc 6, clang 3.8 and VS14. Found a mistake in Facebook’s folly::fbvector.

• massif-cherrypick (C++, 2016)

  • C++, Memory Profiling
  • A Valgrind extension to analyze partial memory consumptions. Takes in a massif.out file, and forges a new one containing only stats of the functions that match the specified pattern..

• ChiChew (Python, 2016)

  • Python, Web Scraping, Packet Inspection
  • A web crawler for the Chinese-Chinese dictionary published by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Observed HTTP requests, inspected packets and came up with a neat approach to crawl the data.

• Parallel Video Processing (C++, 2015)

  • C++, Parallel Programming, Video Processing
  • A group project on parallelizing video processing. Utilized various APIs: C++11 thread, Pthread, OpenMP, CUDA and FPGA on Windows, Linux and OSX. Drawn interesting conclusions.

• Twitch Plays Connect6 (C++, 2014)

  • C++, Multithreading, Network Programming, Artificial Intelligence
  • A crowdsourced Connect6 game hosted on Twitch. Designed a multi-threaded interaction framework built on OpenCV, adapted an open-source IRC client and wrote a simple Connect6 AI.

• FormMgr (Web, 2013)

  • HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Web Development
  • A simple and easy-to-use form management system for organizations. Allows users to validate fields with custom regular expressions. Utilized HTML5 native drag-and-drop and JavaScript for extensive DOM manipulations.

Talks

• Jasmine Chen. {Name-of-testing-framework} Interactive Edit/Reload. Google Cambridge. Sep 8, 2017.
• Jasmine Chen. CDC Performance Improvement: Trimming Resistance Network. Synopsys Shanghai. Nov 14, 2016.
• Jasmine Chen. Profiling & Graph Visualization. Synopsys Taiwan. Aug 17, 2016.
• Jasmine Chen. State Space Search. NCTU Training Camp. Summer 2015.
• Jasmine Chen. Basic Enumeration. NCTU Training Camp. Summer 2015.
• Jasmine Chen. Essential C/C++. NCTU Training Camp. Winter 2015.

Trivia

• Used to solve a 3x3 Rubik's Cube in under 18 seconds on average.
• Moderated UniCube.tw - then one of the most popular online forums for Rubik's cubers in Taiwan.
• Has 500+ games on Steam through game reselling and trading. Was the first and only person in Taiwan to do so.
• Had 3000+ followers on Twitch being an active community member of esports and game streaming .
• Organized the very first reddit AMA for TW/HK esports players.