About Me

Hi- if you’re on this page you’re likely either a friend looking for stuff to poke fun at me with, or a recruiter trying to figure out if I’m:

  1. Competent
  2. Looking for opportunities
  3. Am not a lizard person in a skin suit

I can assure you that even I don’t know the answer to those questions.

Either way, welcome!

General info

I am:

  • A New York-based software engineer, currently working at Google on Google Search since September 2021
  • A guy that can talk your ear off about everything from public transportation to fire codes, and be able to tie it back somehow to software engineering
  • Somebody who once made spicy rice cakes without the rice cakes (don’t ask)
  • Canadian born, Hong Kong raised, American educated, and probably trying (and failing) to find something equivalent to Wah Fung’s quality and price (seriously, $5.50 USD for the equivalent to 2 meals of meat is just crazy).

Education

Like all other people who chose to go to NYU, I too chose this great school to learn in after getting rejected from Columbia for the 7th time.

There may or may not be a video of me singing “Hey there Columbia” to the tune of “Hey there Delilah” floating around somewhere.

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Courant at New York University, 2017 grad.

If you’re a friend

A hint: there’s 7 secrets on this site.

Message on discord if you ever find them, and I’ll treat you to a drink.

If you’re a recruiter

If you are a recruiter, please see this handy-dandy flowchart I made:

My Linkedin should be up to date with my work history, what I’ve worked on, things I’ve lead or done, etc.

Unless there’s a lot of pennies being thrown, I’m not looking to leave NYC, especially since this place and Montreal are the only two cities in the world where I can get an actually good bagel.

Career Top Hits

Supercharging Google Search Engineers 2021-2022 Google

Proposed, designed, and led implementation backend systems to support new Google Search debugging tool, saving thousands of engineer-hours

Squarespace's first automated fraud detection system 2020-2021 Squarespace

Proposed, designed, and led implementation on internal generalized fraud detection system, enabling Squarespace to begin proactively combating Domain fraud

Converting Squarespace into a Domain Registrar 2018-2021 Squarespace

First engineer on Domain Registrar team, building foundational and feature code which turned Squarespace into a full-fledged domain registrar, enabling Squarespace the ability to directly manage domains

Hyper-optimized revenue-critical data pipeline 2017 MediaMath

Designed and lead implementation on system to lower advertising strategy pricing calculations from over 2 hrs to less than 3 minutes (97.9% latency decrease), resulting in millions saved over a year due to more accurate ads pricing information

Tripping over flat surfaces 2000-Present Everywhere

You'd think I'd have learned by now.