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Resume

Experience

Zenith Insurance: App Developer Intern

Summer 2018

• Developed features for Zenith Connect, an iOS and Android app for injured workers to coordinate with their examiner.
• Created My Documents tab with Kotlin (Android) and Swift (iOS) in which all of user’s documents are streamed via REST requests and to be displayed as PDFs.
• Designed Health Corner tab in interactive mockup.
• Managed subtasks and completed code reviews in JIRA.
• Used SQL requests to manipulate events.
• Features developed affected 1500+ people.

Node.js: Open Source Contributor

December 2017

• Used C++ to percent-encode additional characters within Node.js URL parser with new lookup table.
• This aligns URL parser with new WHATWG (HTML Maintaining Group) encoding standards.
• Created local build to pass tests and monitored tests on Jenkins Continuous Integration.
• Feature included in Node.js version 9.4 release, affecting over 3.5 million users.

Zenith Insurance: App Developer Intern

Summer 2017

• Created security overlay with Java and Swift that hides sensitive information when app enters background.
• Wrote functional documentation, designed icons, and fixed bugs in Android and iOS apps.

Skills

Languages:

C#, C++, Java, SQL, JavaScript, JSX, HTML, CSS, Python, Bash, LINQ, Spanish

Programs/Paradigms:

Unity, Figma, Heroku, React, Preact, Angular, GDB

Education

UCLA: BS in Computer Science

August 2017 — June 2021

Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Linux, Object Oriented Programming, Optimization, Multi-threading

Projects

Mappening.io

March 2018 — 2019; mappening.io

• Angular 5 web app that gathers all UCLA events into map.
• Upgraded app to Progressive Web Application with service worker and offline caching.
• Designed with Bootstrap and contributed Figma mockups.
• Helps hundreds of UCLA students find events near them.

“Too Many Authors” React App

April 2018; toomanyauthors.com

• Developed React game in which players take turns telling a story through series of pictures.
• Converted their sentences to pictures with Google Natural Language Processing, Unsplash API, and Qwant search engine API.

Multiplayer Rocket-Jump FPS Game

August 2017

• Developed dynamic server-client movement synchronization and hit recognition with C# in Unity.

UCLA Roommate Matcher 2018

Summer 2018; kimeiga.github.io/ucla2021

• Created Google Form for incoming UCLA freshmen to fill in their lifestyle preferences and stored data in Google Sheet.
• Used Numpy and Pandas Python modules to calculate coefficients of compatibility between all pairs of people.
• Developed HTML website that displays users most compatible roommates via Google Charts API.
• Received 1251 responses and helped 600 people find roommates.

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Projects

Here is a sampling of the work I do!

Blog

I write my blog posts on my separate blog site: Life of Kimeiga. Here are some of the best!

I created a 10KB classless CSS framework

2018-09-15

Broken Mechanics in the Game of Life

2018-09-11

Rapid-Prototyping and Perfectionism

2018-09-03

Contact

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Or just chat about things? I will try to get back to you promptly!

About Me

I started programming games in early high school

I remember when my brother came back from Japan to visit and gave me his copy of Unity 3.x: Game Development Essentials. I barely knew what a computer was.

But I really liked video games, and I loved to idea of making them. So I finished my studying early that night, and started the tutorial in the book. It was really thorough and within the week I had finished my first first person adventure game written in C#! Excited, I had my parents sat down and play it (no small feat).

Ever since then, I've been programming games, websites, applications, languages, etc. I also love videography, sketching, and trying my best on the ukulele. Life has treated me well, and I've been lucky enough to get good grades while also having fun making cool things!

I hope to continue that into the future; let's see where this goes.