hi, i'm Ian
i study Computer Science & Business at UBC!
i enjoy turning messy, failure-prone processes into reliable systems that make things easier for the next person.
right now i'm studying distributed systems through graduate courses at Tsinghua University.
experience
ServiceLead
built call & text automation to help home-service businesses recover missed leads
software engineer • internship
Prosper Foundation
built the platform that took registration, check-in and scoring off spreadsheets for student competitions
software developer • internship
UBC MINT
built real-time systems to stream brain-signal data for researchers
software engineer • design team
Google Developer Student Club
architected a cloud platform for students to write and run code
software developer • university club
projects
rust-analyzer
merged contributions to Rust's official language server, replacing manual AST edits with a safer transaction-style approach
GuardianEye
an elderly-care platform to detect falls and assess their severity from live camera feeds
Helios
a tool to turn spoken conversations into structured diagrams as they happen
InstaText
a messaging app to deliver and persist conversations in real time using WebSockets and Postgres
ClashGuessr
a Clash Royale card-guessing game with a persistent live leaderboard, played by 700+ people