Jian Wei Chuah

Born

1991
Started school at the University of Toronto
September, 2010 - June, 2015
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with High Honours
Computer Engineering, Minoring in Engineering Business - CGPA: 3.83/4.0
Honors:

University of Toront Scholar

Dean's Honors Roll

Engineering Alumni Centennial Admission Scholarship
2010
Interned at Pentamaster Technology, Malaysia
June, 2011 - August, 2011

Designed automated quality check stations to check for defects of the products manufactured.

Assembled CPUs, created backup files and installed OS for computers to be used on the machines.
2011
Summer Research at University of Augsburg, Germany
May, 2012 - August, 2012

Researched on object detection and segmentation with the research team which involved coding in Microsoft Visual C++ and Matlab.

Implemented visualizations for the object detection system that enabled the evaluations of different detection methods.

Brainstormed ideas, read research papers, and implemented different approaches to optimize the detector.

Successfully increased the performance of the detector.
2012
Interned at Next Mobile Inc., Toronto, Canada
May, 2012 - September, 2012

Electric Courage helps people build connections real time by giving people the ability to post on a location’s virtual wall or private message anyone at the same location at the same time.

Assumed full responsibility of the design and development of the Blackberry Application of the company’s social networking application from scratch.

Integrated Facebook and Twitter login, employed location services and API calls to company’s server.
2012
Joined Marin Software Inc., San Francisco, USA
May, 2013 - May, 2014

Developed backend code in Java for Marin Software’s Online Advertising Management Platform as part of the URL Builder pod including writing unit tests using JUnit and Mockito.

Enhanced URL building features in the Marin App to support self-onboarding of customers.

Reduced significant time and increased reliability in resolving data discrepancies by building an automated asynchronous tracking URL validation system that processes millions of ads daily.
2013
Attended Startup School, Y Combinator

May, 2013 - May, 2014
Startup School is a one day conference where you'll hear stories and practical advice from founders and investors. Learn how they got started, what went wrong, what surprised them, and what happened as their companies grew.

2013
Top 5 finalists at AngelHack Kuala Lumpur Hackathon
June, 2014

Created in 24 hours in a group of 5 an iOS e-commerce, social networking app for a better online shopping experience.

Backend server code written in Ruby on Rails, Mobile iOS app written in C# using Xamarin and iOS SDK.

Top 10 finalists among 50 teams.
2014
Top 5 finalists at UofTHacks Hackathon
January, 2015

A collaborative note-taking web app that allows users to take notes while watching YouTube videos.

Top 5 out of 112 participating teams to present on stage at the closing ceremony.
2015
Started working at Amazon.com

June, 2015
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies.

2015
Started working at Google

June, 2016
Next Billion Users.

2016