hi, i'm ian

cs + business @ ubc

i like building things people depend on, learning whatever the problem needs, and making sure it was worth building in the first place.

Experience

Prosper FoundationSoftware Developer Intern
Jan 2026 — Present
  • ↳Shipped a full-stack event management platform for Prosper Foundation's annual business competitions and events.
  • ↳Automated the registration flow so the team doesn't spend 40+ hours monthly on manual data entry.
UBC MINTSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026 — Present
  • ↳Building the Rust backend for an open-source neuroscience research platform, enabling structured annotation of brain activity data.
  • ↳Set up WebSocket streaming so brain activity data flows in real-time at ~500 samples/sec.
  • ↳Implemented TimescaleDB to link timestamped annotations to brain activity data for ML model training.
Google Developer Student ClubSoftware Developer
Oct 2025 — Present
  • ↳Built a collaborative coding platform backend using AWS API Gateway and Lambda supporting 150+ users.
  • ↳Implemented AWS Cognito authentication with Google OAuth 2.0 and JWT-based session management.
  • ↳Engineered sandboxed code execution with Lambda and DynamoDB across 500+ runs with enforced execution limits.

Projects