About
Hi and welcome to my website! I'm George, a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo and a full stack engineer. My current focus is full stack development with particular interest in backend development and machine learning. Find out more about my past experiences and projects below!
Experience
Software Engineer @ Newfront
May 2024 - Aug 2024
San Francisco, USA
- Developed an insurance policy cancellation system with enhanced efficiency in Next.js and Node.js for 800+ insurance brokers
- Enhanced tRPC API services in Nest.js with bulk PostgreSQL queries, improving server response times by 250%
- Migrated legacy data using Hightouch, increasing case management efficiency by 30% and user satisfaction by 50%
- Coordinated and completed the engineering, testing, migration, and deployment work 2 weeks ahead of schedule
Software Engineer @ Deephaven Data Labs
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
New York, USA
- Engineered high-performance interactive interfaces in TypeScript, React, and Redux to allow for analysis of real-time partitioned data from Parquet files and Kafka streams used by 50+ Fortune 500 companies
- Implemented gRPC API services in GWT to facilitate transpilation of Go, Python, C++, and SQL data operations to Java
- Eliminated 80% of uncaught errors in a Groovy query engine through data validation and exception handling
- Fixed flaky Jest unit tests and automated end-to-end Playwright tests, increasing code coverage and reliability by 20%
Software Developer @ NielsenIQ
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
Toronto, Canada
- Built data visualization dashboards for 135+ Tier 1 companies using custom JavaScript components and Ruby on Rails with Redis, leading to $2 million in annual incremental profit
- Improved data granularity by modifying PostgreSQL queries in Python microservices, leading to a data resolution increase that supports analysis of individual store performance for client retail companies
- Optimized JavaScript code and SQL queries, resulting in a 5x reduction in dashboard load time
- Deployed SEV-1 emergency hotfixes to production while maintaining top 5 sprint velocity on the team
- Orchestrated SDLC by translating business requirements into technical specifications for sprints
Full Stack Developer @ TD Bank
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Toronto, Canada
- Created a new React user interface allowing hundreds of clients to trade new custom securities by using customer-entered information to calculate metrics to add into a Microsoft SQL database
- Developed Python scripts and SQL queries managed with Celery to parse financial data, analyze portfolio performance, and summarize over 50 financial metrics for customers in an Excel spreadsheet
- Reduced bugs in React Redux apps by 80% through modularizing deprecated JavaScript code
- Verified quality of changes by running dozens of debugging tests on a Python app server in a Linux VM
- Authored documentation of new features and changes to workflow on JIRA and Confluence
Education
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
- Current Term: 3B
- Degree/Major: Bachelor of Software Engineering
- Minor: Combinatorics and Optimization
- GPA: 4.0/4.0
- Expected Graduation: May 2026
- Honours: Dean's Honours List
- Degree Specialization: Artificial Intelligence
- Average: 93%
National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
- Date Attended: January – May 2024
- Faculty: Engineering and Computing
- Program: International Exchange Student
- GPA: 4.5/5.0
Projects
- All
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- Websites
- Python
- AI
Skills
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Ruby on Rails
Java
Kotlin
Django
Node.js
React
SQL
C++
Docker
Contact
Email:
georgecwan01@gmail.com
Phone:
+1 778 323 2687
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/georgecwan