McCowan Zhang
McCowan Zhang
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bio

Hi my name is McCowan Zhang and I'm currently a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. I have a wide array of technical experience with Python, C, Java, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I am interested in Software Development, Blockchain technology and Finance!

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Website development Software development Machine learning Artificial intelligence Databases

Skills

Blog posts 5 Target market 5 Marketing 4 Research 3 Content creation 2 Innovation 2 Software development 2 Amazon web services 1 Application programming interface (api) 1 Consulting 1 Creativity 1 Curiosity 1 Devops 1 Energy audits 1 Full stack development 1 Greenhouse gas 1 Marketing collateral 1 Marketing materials 1 Planning 1 Product requirements 1 Promotional materials 1 Scheduling 1 Social media content 1 Systems architecture 1 Taekwondo (martial art) 1 User feedback 1 Web accessibility testing 1 Writing 1

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Recent projects

Autoverse.tech
Autoverse.tech
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

AWS Technical Certification and Experience

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. Autoverse is a cloud consulting firm with a specialty in Data and Analytics. The following is required for this project. Passing an AWS Certification Exam at the Associate/Professional or Specialty level Finish and pass an AWS Business Course. This is a very simple course offered to partners and generally does not take more than a couple of hours. Finish and pass an AWS Technical Course. This is also a very simple course offered to partners and generally does not take more than a couple of hours to finish.

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Category Software development + 4
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Sisa Energy Ltd
Sisa Energy Ltd
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Full Stack Web Development

Sisa energy is an innovative energy auditing company with a mission to help reduce greenhouse gases produced by buildings. Our company would like to explore software development and open source support for a new product. In advance of any product build, our company spends a good amount of time researching potential technologies, architectures, and how they will fit together to fit our customerโ€™s needs. For this project, we are planning to add new features to our product to better answer our customerโ€™s needs, and we would love to use new talented individuals to help us devise these features. This will involve: Conduct background research on our product. Adding download button feature Setting up API calls in backend and frontend

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Category Website development + 2
Closed
EdTek Services
EdTek Services
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Blogging

Our company advertises products online. We want to create a blog to strengthen our marketing. We would like to collaborate with students to create blog posts that drive more traffic to our website. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, target market, products and services. Recommending topics for our blog posts. Drafting blog posts relevant to our business. Revising blog posts based on feedback.

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Category Media + 1
Closed
Squash Labs Inc.
Squash Labs Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Blogging: Create blog posts for the tech industry

Squash.io is a DevOps platform that allows software developers to quickly deploy their web apps for testing purposes. We currently have many companies in our platform, including names like NASA, Wagtail and New York Public Radio. We would like to collaborate with students to create blog posts that drive more traffic to our website. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, target market, products and services. Recommending topics for our blog posts. Drafting blog posts relevant to our business. Revising blog posts based on feedback. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending ways to market our blog. The blog posts are not going to be technical (i.e, you do not need any knowledge of software development). Our goal is to create blog posts containing statistics or trends related to technology in general. We will provide all the tools you need to do your own research. The only skills you need are: curiosity, ability to research information using the web and writing outstanding content.

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Category Media + 1
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Work experience

Fullstack/Web3 Developer
DanDev Solutions Inc.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
May 2022 - Current

This is a small company so this positions takes on many roles. As a team we create entire technical solutions, but specialize in Web3. Some of the tasks of this role include: participating in code reviews and regular scrums, developing backend REST api infrastructure, developing frontend components, testing and debugging. The tech stack used thus far includes: Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, React, MongoDB, AWS, GraphQL,

Head Kumon Instructor
Kumon
East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada
June 2019 - June 2021

Established professional and positive relationships with parents leading to over a 75% customer retention rate during our operational transition due to COVID-19.
Assessed studentsโ€™ work accurately and efficiently reducing unnecessary wait times for both students and parents reducing the average Kumon session to 20 minutes per student.
Maintained accurate data entry of student performance metrics

Education

Bachelors of Computer Science, Computer Science
University of Waterloo
September 2021 - Current

Personal projects

twittertrader
April 2022 - April 2022

twittertrader is a react web application that analyzes the sentiment of tweets about the top trending stocks to see how the general public feels about the companies. The backend is built using Twitter and Yahoo Finance apis along with natural language processing from NLTK on Python. The frontend was done on React and the integration was done with Flask.