Andrew Dai’s Resume

Education

Atlanta, Georgia August 2014 - May 2018

Pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Sociology

Research: Information Interfaces Lab at the GVU Center with Dr. John Stasko, Solar Home (Vertically Integrated Project)
Involvement: Project Rise Up 4 CS (Developer) with Professor Barbara Ericson, Girls Who Code (Facilitator), HackGT (Director)
Awards: Faculty Honors (Fall 2014, Fall 2015), Dean’s List (Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
GPA: 3.66 (overall)

Director, formerly Tech Team Georgia Tech December 2015 - present

Grew the size and scope of the organization with partnerships and increased programming for undergrads at Georgia Tech
Institutionalize standard procedures and recordkeeping for a fast-moving and growing organization
Started HackGT’s first high school event (Catalyst) to address disparities in access to STEM and CS education in Atlanta
Shifted outreach focus to under-represented minorities in STEM and created beginner-friendly environments to encourage newcomers

Platform Engineering Intern San Francisco, California May 2017 - August 2017

Contributed to open and closed source deployment tools
Refactored and updated tools and utilities for host maintainence, application monitoring, and deployment configuration management
Researched, designed, and implemented a application health monitoring service used in critical infrastructure, reducing network load
Assisted in operational tasks and collaborated to service other teams

Software Engineering Intern Washington, D.C. May 2016 - August 2016

Created migration scripts in SQL Server for a new data model that maintained backwards compatibility and increased extensiblity
Developed a new homepage for the core product to enable easier multi-entity analysis and increase feature adoption
Prototyped and implemented MasterCard account segmentation with R, C#, and SQL by clustering on spending behaviors
Authored multiple blog posts to share new developments in core infrastructure and new analytical findings

Research Assistant Georgia Tech August 2014 - May 2016

Explored multi-user, multi-device data visualization techniques with web technologies (WebSockets, d3.js) and mobile devices
Wrote a multitouch Dust and Magnet simulation with Java/Processing for a Microsoft PixelSense touchscreen

Intern Cambridge, Massachusetts May 2015 - March 2016

Designed and developed a single page application and REST API for bug and feature tracking using Angular.js and Caché ObjectScript
Shipped a fully featured product to hundreds of employees in an aggressive 8 week timeline

Intern Concord, Massachusetts June 2014 - August 2014

Led the initial development of a web-based drawing tool now used by thousands of teachers across hundreds of schools in the US
Tested and described issues in web, iOS and Android versions of SmartGraphs (interactive math/graphing activity)

Hackathon submission database (HackTech) March 2017

Gather data by page scraping a popular hackathon project submission site (no API available) and store it in a relational database

HackGT Ticketing and Checkin System July 2016 - September 2016

Created an ecosystem of small single-purpose web applications that communicate through RESTful API’s; built with Angular.js and Node.js

Poster at IEEE Vis2015 - Information Interfaces Lab Presented October 2015

October 2013 - June 2014

Modified a toy remote control car to autonomously drive between GPS waypoints
Developed for embedded Linux on a BeagleBone Black microcomputer and Robot Operating System (ROS) with Python