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My role includes: Software Engineer 💻 Full Stack Developer 💻 Web Dev Freelancer 🎨 UI/UX learner 🤖 AI and web3 enthusiast 🤖 Machine Learning 🌈 "Tech for Good" 🔅 passionate dancer for peace & ❤️
☀ As a Software Developer, I'm deeply committed to leveraging technology for societal good and advancing social justice within the tech sphere, with knowledge covering both Computer and Data science. I'm also an AI and web3 enthusiast.
☀ With a background that bridges both Art and Science, I bring a unique multidisciplinary perspective to my work.
☀ I thrive on continuous learning and am always eager to acquire new skills and knowledge across diverse subjects. My adaptability and quick learning abilities empower me to tackle any challenge with enthusiasm.
☀ Collaboration is at the heart of my approach. I excel in team environments, where my communication and time management skills foster productive outcomes.High Flexibility and Adaptibility
☀ I'm open to work anywhere in Canada
☀ Having lived and worked across three continents—America, Asia, and Europe—over the past decade, I possess a keen understanding of global dynamics and thrive in diverse, multi-background teams. My experiences have cultivated a nuanced appreciation for inclusion and diversity, enriching my collaborative approach. - Resume
- Khora Huaying Gu resume.pdf
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Contract Web Developer
StarPay
Singapore, Singapore
March 2024 - Current
• Develop a responsive business landing website using Taiwind CSS and React framework.
• Introduced Agile methods with GIT , Jira and Confluence to the company, resulting in significantly improved collaboration efficiency across the team and notable enhancements in productivity.
• Facilitate weekly online meetings to present web development demos, leading discussions on collaboration with designers and refining development workflows.
Software Engineer
SkillUpIT
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 2023 - August 2023
Crafted and executed the “Limited Time Promotion & Buy Now” business request by Java Spring, leveraging Redis and RocketMQ, elevating performance by 10 times from hundreds QPS to 10 thousands QPS range.
• Segmented order service into promotion and order microservices according to DDD(Domain Driven Design) principles; Implemented cache preheating for active promotions; Completed lock and revert inventory service via Redis and Lua script.
• Optimized optimistic-lock for inventory updates in MySQL database, solving the potential over sell problem while increasing data throughput by 80% from 416.9/sec to 755.4/sec, validated by JMeter concurrency testing.
• Strengthened application robustness by developing comprehensive unit tests, using Junit and Mockito, augmenting test coverage from 60% to 85%, as indicated by Jacoco.
• Collaborated in setting up and maintaining a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Docker, integrated Kubernetes with AWS EKS, streamlining the development process and ensuring reliable deployments.
Education
Master, Computer and Information Technology
University of Pennsylvania
January 2021 - Current
Master, Sociology
University of Cambridge
October 2016 - Current
Personal projects
Big Data Analysis and Machine Learning on Wine Review
February 2023 - April 2023
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1niKMYA3LXX4CJ5Gj1FAcfst6axhG4vtx?usp=drive_link• Accomplished a Kaggle competition-styled project to predict wine prices by given wine features and review feedback, using Python Pandas and Numpy for data wrangling, NLTK for NLP.
• Applied PCA Analysis to reduce dimensionality from 45 to 28 components; performed Linear Regression (regularized by Ridge and Lasso) and Logistic Regression, evaluating the result by plotting ROC, AUC.
• Constructed the neural network model using PyTorch; Decision Tree and Random Forests using Sckit-learn, tuning and setting the tree-depth to 30 to gain the highest accuracy score.
Full Stack Song Display Web-app
February 2022 - April 2022
https://kkkhora.github.io/IT-job-portfolio/• Designed and built a full stack MVC web app to recommend Spotify songs, with React for frontend, NodeJS and ExpressJS for backend Restful API, allowing user to search, filter and collect songs, hosted on AWS EC2.
• Engineered a region-based song selecter by allowing user to click on countries in an interactive world map to get songs, using React-simple-maps and React Hooks.
• Collaborated in user recommendation function to perform unsupervised machine learning technique to classify all songs based on K-means technique.