Hi, I'm Justin!

I'm a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo, currently in my 2B term. I'm a fan of basketball, cute cats, and taking goofy selfies. In my free time, I love writing music and regretting that I missed the dip.

In terms of software, most of my professional experience is in building microservices. I was previously at Zynga Inc. as a SWE intern, where I developed performant backend systems in Go/gRPC for Zynga Poker, the world's biggest Poker game with millions of monthly users. Some of my work includes revamping the app's rewards microservice, improving P95 response time for 79 million transactions by up to 9%, every single day.

Before that, I conducted ML research under Dr. Olga Vechtomova at the NLP Lab at UWaterloo, where I assisted in the development of a generative model that creates lyrics + music from videos of dance as input. During my first internship at ArenaX Labs, I worked on a mix of the above—I designed a GAN to generate new game states to train a server encoder/decoder, and worked on the app's RESTful APIs in Express.js.

On my own, I love going to hackathons and building whenever I can. Most recently, I was a recipient of the top prize at Hack the North 2023, Canada's biggest hackathon, and received 1st Place with my team at HackWestern.

• Younger CS and Engineering students at UWaterloo might recognize me from my highly-neglected YouTube channel.
• I'm working together with some amazing Engineering folks to establish UW Reality Labs, Waterloo Engineering's next design team. This term, I'll be acting as Software Lead to direct the development of a deep learning model for augmented-reality gesture classification.
• Currently building: World Modelling/ML for Autonomous Vehicles @ WATonomous, winter repairs to the chicken coop 🥲

Experience

To see more, visit my Github or Itch.io.