About me

A brief history of me

2023

I was lucky enough to get an offer at Flexport, through my dear high school friend's referral. And I was very lucky to have worked with a team of amazing talents. I got to work with super interesting technologies like Kafka, Kinesis, gRPC, and GraphQL. And of course, I got to practice more Kotlin.

We launched 4PL Shipment Visibility feature on Flexport's enterpise client facing platform.

But unfortunately yet again, Flexport had another round of layoff, and our team was impacted, myself included. All of the new grads were laid off, and worst of all, all of us were on F1 visa.

Fortunately though, the majority of our team was not impacted. The remaining team members were super supportive and they were always offering their helping whenever they could.

2022

I joined Meta's Releng Expereience team as a Front End Engineer Intern in the summer, where I built FlightDeck Release Runbooks to unify information and improve the mobile application deployment workflow for mobile release operators.

I also returned to Amazon Last Mile team as an SDE intern in fall to build an Android OTA (Over the Air) update system. This is when I fist got to write some Kotlin, and I just loved how much simpler it is compared to Java.

But this is also when the mass layoffs started, and unfortunately, I was not able to get return offerers as Meta and Amazon entered hiring freeze.

2021

I joined Amazon Last Mile team as an SDE intern. I developed a full stack website as a platform to provide team with better production debugging workflow.

2020

I decided that I would like to transition into computer science, and I started my Master's degree in the Aligh program at Northeastern University

2019

I received my Bachelor's degree in physics.

2018

I joined Dr. Dave Patterson in his lab to work on the Molecular Microwave Spectroscopy experiment. I was mainly responsible for building MATLAB and hardware tools for the experiment.

2015

I was admitted to University of California - Santa Barbara as a physics student

2012

I Came to the US on my own to study (sponsored and supported by my parents of course). Started my high school at Moreau Catholic High School.

1996

I was born in Guangzhou, China.

As a physicist

I worked with Dr. David Patterson at UCSB. In the lab, I primarily worked on the Molecular Spectroscopy experiment and focused on a few tools for the experiment, including a 24/7 temperature collecting and plotting script and a high frequency microwave circuit box that can both drive and listen for microwave signals. The lab website can be found here.

Photo of Patterson Group before I left. I am the person kneeling on the right

While I was not a very talented physicist, I do like physics a lot. I am a very curious person and I always wondered how things work. From physics, I can learn why things work the way they do from the very foundation, which was very enticing to me. Physics may seem very daunting to many other people, and I wanted to change this impression by helping them realize that physics is fun. So my very first website was an attempt to help people (especially students) play around with physics concepts that may be unintuitive.

As an SDE

I had some experience with building small tools for the physics lab. Those experience taught me important skills to learn on my own and persist through obstacles, but more importantly, I found that I really love the problem solving process of designing, building, and iterate. That was when I started to explore computer science and started my Master's degree at Northeastern University.

I was lucky enough to start my career as an SDE intern at Amazon, where I learned quite literally everything. I started from not knowing what Gradle is to successfully building a full-stack website with fully serverless architecture using AWS.

This is where I am at, and I really look forward to exploring a lot of of computer science, and seeing where my future holds.