• Hello
    I'm
    Steve Jang

  • I'm
    a Software Engineer

Who am I

About

Backend Engineer

Fullstack Engineer

Database Engineer

Traveler

What I learned

Education

Bachelor Degree of Computer Science

Coursework

Operating Systems and Systems Programming , Software Engineering, Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems, Database System, Internet Architecture and Protocols, Computer Security, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Discrete Mathematics and Probability

Honor

- The 1st place on Cal Hacks 5.0: Cisco API challenge
- The Leadership Award Scholarship from Cal Alumni Association in 2017
- Undergraduate Scholarship from BKAA(Berkeley Korean-American Alumni Association) in 2018

What can I do

Skills

Python

95%

Java

95%

Go

75%

C & C++

75%

SQL

80%

Ruby on Rails

90%

HTML CSS JavaScript

70%
Projects
Part time Job
Cup of Coffee per week
Exercise hour per week
What I did

Experience

UCSF Kevin Bender Computational Neuroscience Lab & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 05/2018 - 08/2018

Undergraduate Researcher
- Built automation frameworks and cleaned data sets for optimizing the combination of stimulations based on neuron response, collaborating with a post-doc advisor and three undergraduate researchers.
- Reduced testing hours by factor of billions and team presented the research result at CNS 2018 (Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting).

UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) Department 06/2018 - Present

Lab Assistant / Academic Intern
- Assisted an instructor and 40 students through mini lectures and Q&A sessions in Data Structures class.
- Facilitated three-hour labs twice a week, mentoring students on their assignments and projects.
- Conducted daily quizzes and gave individualized feedback to students.

Korean American Science & Engineer Association (KSEA), UC Berkeley 01/2018 - Present

Project Team
- Taught version control systems such as using Git and Github to 60 association members.
- Designed and developed a Python based smart mirror that has voice recognition function to provide information about weather, date, and time using Raspberry Pi with a team of five software engineers.

What I made

Projects

chAirBear2 (Python, Node.js) 11/2018

- 1st placed on the Cal Hacks 5.0: Cisco API Challenge
- Detected available seats in libraries with computer vision using OpenCV, ImageAI and Yolo.
- Trained chatbot based on keyword that notifies libraries traffic using Cisco WebEX API.
- Addressed chatbot by creating tunnel between Cisco cloud platform and local server using ngrok.

Secure File Storing & Sharing (Go) 09/2018 - 10/2018

- Built sign-in and login function by generating RSA keys and storing encrypted user data in datastore.
- Designed and developed file storing system that supports store, append, load and share functions that guarantee confidentiality by CFB encryption and integrity by HMAC and RSA sign.
- Protected users’ personal information and files against 50,000 + attacks.

Pacman AI (Python) 08/2018 – 11/2018

- Implemented DFS, BFS, UCS and A* search algorithms to solve navigation and traveling salesman problems in the Pacman world.
- Implemented multiagent minimax and expectimax algorithms to eat dots optimally while avoiding ghosts.

Bear Maps (Java, Maven) 07/2018 - 08/2018

- Wrote ORM layer to parse XML files to graph objects for Berkeley city map.
- Implemented prefix matching search with Tries and shortest path with A* search.

Database Management System Implementation (Java) 01/2018 - 05/2018

- Implemented the index traversing using B+ Tree to insert and select in O(logbN).
- Implemented PNLJ, BNLJ, Sort Merge Join and query optimization using pushdown, left deep plans, and dynamic programming for the minimum-cost joins based on query.
- Built lock manager that can handle holding and releasing compatible transactions.

What I wanna do

Interests

Exercise

Movie

Travel

Music

Teaching

Cooking