(Khora) Huaying Gu
(Khora) Huaying Gu
Student - She / Her
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Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Bio

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.

Portals
Categories
Cloud technologies Website development Software development Artificial intelligence Databases

Skills

Amazon web services 2 Application programming interface (api) 2 Cloud services 2 Data layers 2 Data migration 2 Firebase 2 Infrastructure as a service (iaas) 2 Platform as a service (paas) 2 React.js (javascript library) 2 Regression testing 2

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Latest feedback

Matt Karakilic He / Him
Director
June 8, 2024
Individual endorsement
Infrastructure as a service (iaas) Application programming interface (api) React.js (javascript library) Cloud services Regression testing Data migration Data layers Firebase Amazon web services Platform as a service (paas)

I am writing to highly recommend Khora for her exceptional contributions and leadership on our recent project. Khora demonstrated outstanding technical expertise and a strong commitment to teamwork. As the team lead, Khora managed communications effectively between team, and I, ensuring everyone was on the same page and project goals were met efficiently. She provided invaluable assistance to her team members, particularly in documenting critical components such as the Amplify structure, how to connect Amplify to the backend, and the process for deploying frontend code from GitHub to Amplify. Regarding her other contributions, she was responsible for the API function migration. She independently refactored the relevant code, deployed it to the API Gateway and AWS Lambda, and configured the necessary test cases. She was also pleased to report that all tests passed successfully, confirming the successful migration. Additionally, she wrote the documentation for this part of the project independently. Khora's ability to lead, communicate, and provide technical support was instrumental in the success of our project. Her dedication, skills, and teamwork make her a valuable asset to any team. I highly recommend Khora for any future endeavours she chooses to pursue.

Team feedback
Overall, despite the challenges we all had whether the experience of each student to team members’ availability. Team did well. Mithun worked on the S3 storage migration, however due to some health issues he couldn’t finish what’s started. Boris stepped in and helped finish the S3 storage part. Akram did an excellent job on the database migration. He figured out a doable approach, wrote that section of the documentation independently, and communicated his thoughts clearly. Daniel handled the authentication migration documentation independently. Not the talkative type in the team but he did manage to complete the part assigned to him. Boris initially worked with Khora on the API function migration, double confirming that Khora’s solutions were workable. Later, he assisted Mithun with the S3 storage migration and successfully migrated the static data from Firebase to S3. He put in a lot of hard work on this which is SO MUCH appreciated! Beibei and Deborah focused on the Amplify and React frontend part. They were quite junior to this area. Hence, they contributed a bit less compared to others, and Khora helped them a lot with their part of the documentation, such as the amplify structure, how to connect amplify to the backend, how to deploy frontend code from github to amplify, etc. Again, amazing work by Khora! Last but not least Khora was responsible for the API function migration. She has refactored that part of codes, put them on API gateway and AWS Lambda, configured the test case. They have all passed the test so the migration was successful. She wrote this part of documentation independently. Also, she did an amazing job managing the team and keeping me posted throughout the process. I highly appreciated this and recommend her any project she would wish to work on - as there is nothing she can do as long as she puts her mind to it!
Infrastructure as a service (iaas) Application programming interface (api) React.js (javascript library) Cloud services Regression testing Data migration Data layers Firebase Amazon web services Platform as a service (paas)
Beyond the Cloud
Beyond the Cloud - DevOps and Backend Development
Beyond the Cloud
Omnia Consulting Ltd.
Software Infrastructure/Cloud Engineer
Omnia Consulting Ltd.

Recent projects

Work experience

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.