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Education

BA (expected May 2027) in Computer Science (in EECS College of Engineering)

University of California, Berkeley

Aug 2023—May 2027

GPA 3.84 overall + 3.92 in major; Honors Program (top 8% by faculty recommendation).
Relevant coursework: CS 61A + 61B + 61C (foundations), CS 162 (Operating Systems), CS 186 (Databases), CS 169 (Software Engineering), CS 188 (AI), CS 280 (Computer Vision — graduate-level).
Dean's List 4 consecutive semesters; Phi Beta Kappa nomination (junior year).

Skills + Languages

Programming + Web

TypeScript + React + Next.js (production: Quill + Heartland)Python (pandas + scikit-learn + FastAPI)Rails + PostgreSQL + Vercel + HerokuGit + GitHub + CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Languages

English (native) + Spanish (functional) + Mandarin (heritage, intermediate)

Summary

Junior at UC Berkeley (Computer Science, GPA 3.84 / 3.92 in major); 2 prior software engineering internships (Series C SaaS + a Bay Area startup); shipped 4 production features across the 2 internships. VP of the 38-member ACM student chapter. Cal Hacks 2024 winner. Honors Program.

Experience

Software Engineering Intern

Quill (Series C developer-tools SaaS) · San Francisco, CA

May 2024—Aug 2024

Shipped 2 production features in TypeScript + React over 12 weeks (cohort filter UI + integrations onboarding flow).
Merged 14 PRs; reviewed 4 PRs from other interns.
Co-presented intern project at all-hands (380 attendees); offered return internship for Summer 2025.

Software Engineering Intern

Heartland Commerce (Bay Area e-commerce startup) · Oakland, CA

Jun 2023—Aug 2023

Rebuilt the admin-dashboard React frontend with Next.js App Router over 10 weeks; reduced LCP from 4.8s to 1.2s.
Mentored 2 incoming interns through the codebase orientation.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Prof. Chen's Computational Biology Lab (UC Berkeley) · Berkeley, CA

Sep 2023—Present

Authored Python data pipeline for 38GB single-cell RNA-seq dataset (pandas + scikit-learn).
Co-author on poster presented at SIGBIO 2024.
6 hours/week during semester + 28 hours/week summer.

Projects

• Recipe-Sharing Web App (CS 169 Software Engineering, Spring 2024): built React + Rails app with 4 teammates; OAuth + image upload + tag search; 84 commits; A grade from Prof. Fox; deployed to Vercel + Heroku. • Spotify Listening Stats App (side project, 2024): Next.js + Spotify Web API; 380 daily users + 4 GitHub stars. • Open-source: 14 PRs merged into the React ecosystem (4 to React Router, 6 to Next.js examples, 4 to Vercel templates) in 2024.

Leadership + Recognition

• VP, ACM Student Chapter (UC Berkeley, 2024-present): co-led 38-member chapter through 14 events; weekly tech talks (avg 38 attendees); spring hackathon (84 participants); 4 industry sponsorships. • 1st place at Cal Hacks 2024 (380 teams); built a real-time captioning + translation web app in 36 hours; demoed to YC partners. • Undergraduate Course Staff for CS 61A (Fall 2024): led 2 weekly discussion sections (38 students total). • Cal Alumni Association Leadership Scholar.

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