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Last Updated: December 10, 2022

Senior Software Engineer based in the San Jose, CA area

Microsoft - Senior Software Engineer - (08/2020 - Present)

Contributing to the development of Microsoft Teams.
Author of and lead engineer for Compose Framework use within Microsoft Teams messaging experiences and other features.
- Providing rich text editing capabilities for chat, and channel posts
- Lead migration from legacy Compose Framework to the latest version of the Compose Framework in a cross-organization manner
- Managed development lifecycle to deliver a completely new version of the framework from inception to production-quality within 1 year
- Expert knowledge in leveragin the CKEditor 5 framework.
Performance engineering for Microsoft Loop components in Teams
Contributing to framework, performance, and feature development in Teams messaging features

Front App - Software Engineer - (10/2019 - 08/2020)

Full stack developer as a part of the Platform, and Customer Centric Communications (CCC) team for the Front email client.
Contributed to rearchitecting, and implementing contact management within the service.
Platform work consisted of integration error framework development, and authentication within the app with partners (third party)

Microsoft - Software Engineer 2 - (02/2018 - 10/2019)

Contributed development of the transport layer for the core framework used by the collaborative live-editing components in Microsoft Teams.
Previously worked on Skype consumer web and application service performance
- Improved distributed notification service performance from 60 min to 10 min per notification period (6.00x)
- Increased the performance of internal account-deletion service in preparation for the GDPR compliance with utilization of basic table-based hashing algorithm. (1 month to 8 minutes after optimization)
- Reduced the Skype Integrations JavaScript add-in load and rendering time by an average of 4.15x over simulated slow 3G networks.
Owned and maintained the Skype Bot Channel configuration page on Microsoft Azure Bot Services.
Wrote and maintained design documents which were used cross-organization as references

IBM - Staff Software Engineer - (04/2017 - 02/2018)

Full stack engineer performing web development for IBM Direct Link, a cloud service using modern front-end technologies.
Developed management, and monitoring components for internal application controlling cloud platform with job queue to monitor device connection status.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, React, Oracle SQL

TSheets - Software Engineer - (10/2016 - 04/2017)

Improved performance of Android WebView component to offload rendering UI components to the GPU.
- Achieved 60 fps on scrolling and animation from ~15 fps for web and mobile applications.
Created and maintained authorized device and configuration components along with enhancement and implementation of device authorization token refresh scheme.
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL

Yardi Systems - Software Engineer - (06/2012 - 10/2016)

Development and maintenance of web features, and pharmaceutical systems for the Yardi EHR web application.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - (2020 - 2022) - M.Sc in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara - (2008 - 2012) - B.Sc in Computer Science

Gradient Domain Editing

Presentation and source: http://rogerngo.com/notebook/vision/gradient_editing/
Using computer vision techniques to explore, and demonstrate gradient domain editing (Poisson, Laplacian, etc)
Technologies: Python, OpenCV

Teaching Marching Squares

Demo and source: https://urbanspr1nter.github.io/marchingsquares/
Developed to demonstrate the marching squares algorithm with a hands-on approach as a web application
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas

Shaded Teapot

Demonstration of Phong, Reflected, and Refracted shading of a teapot within a skybox using WebGL
Technologies: JavaScript, GLSL, HTML5
Source: https://github.com/urbanspr1nter/shaded-teapot

NesThing

Jrpg.System

Framework for creating JRPG computer, and console video games
Provides procedural item generation, inventory system, character, enemy, and menu system.
Interoperable with other game engines such as Unity3D
Source: https://github.com/urbanspr1nter/jrpg-system