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title: "Resume"
date: 2019-02-11T07:50:51-05:00
draft: false
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{{% resume/project name="Rarity Surf" 
languages="TypeScript, Node.js, React"  
date="March 2025" show="true" %}}

- **Developed a full-stack web application** to generate 
  rarity rankings for NFT's, integrating with **leading 
  marketplace’s API** to enable users to quickly identify 
  rare NFT's and check their listing status, **improving 
  market research efficiency by 80%**.
- **Built a scalable Node.js backend** with REST API 
  endpoints to return NFTs based on customizable filters 
  such as max rank, price, and rarest traits. **Optimized 
  performance** to handle **3,000+ concurrent requests** by 
  implementing efficient data fetching and caching 
  mechanisms using **PostgreSQL** , ensuring low-latency 
  access to NFT data.
- **Developed a dynamic React frontend** to load and display 
  NFT's in real-time based on user-defined filters to
  streamline browsing. Styled the interface using a modern, 
  responsive library, **reducing frontend load times by 
  50%**.  
- **Developed a Discord bot** to notify users of profitable 
  resale opportunities by leveraging historical sales data 
  to assess deal quality. This feature **increased user 
  engagement by 80%** and provided a seamless way for users 
  to stay updated on market opportunities.  

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{{% resume/project name="Astronofty" 
url="https://github.com/Kevin-Mok/astronofty" 
languages="JavaScript, React, Solidity" date="Jan 2023" 
show="true" %}}

- **Secured [2nd place](https://devpost.com/software/astronofty) overall out of 150+ teams** at UofTHacks 
  X, a 36-hour hackathon, for developing a blockchain-based 
  NFT marketplace app.
- **Built and optimized React (JavaScript) [components](https://github.com/Kevin-Mok/astronofty/tree/main/src/components)** to synchronously 
  upload images and metadata to IPFS, **enhancing user engagement by 80%** during the demo.

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{{% resume/work-experience name="Red Hat" 
title="Cloud/Software Engineer Intern" languages="Kubernetes, GoLang, Jenkins" date="May 2022 — Aug 2023" %}}

- **Reduced deployment time by 66%** by implementing a 
  [solution](https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-operator/commit/175a6356c5474f2360ccb8ae835e0b9b2d653cf1) for deploying locally-compiled binaries onto 
  Kubernetes/OpenShift via command-line, **cutting average 
  deployment times from 45 minutes to 15 minutes**. 
  (**Kubernetes/GoLang** used for this and three below). 
- **Eliminated 80% of manual configuration errors** by enabling 
  the Kubernetes operator to automatically fetch data from 
  deployed services and update configurations, **deprecating 
  legacy startup scripts and reducing overall startup time 
  by 40%**.
- **Improved application stability** by introducing startup 
  probes for legacy applications with longer boot times, 
  **resulting in a 50% reduction in startup-related failures 
  and downtime during production launches**.
- **Enhanced system reliability** by refactoring probes to 
  [assign default values](https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-operator/commit/af4977af228ec8648be28779259d4552246b656f) dynamically based on deployed YAML 
  files and fixing reconciliation issues, **increasing probe accuracy by 30%** and preventing misconfigurations.
- **Increased CI pipeline efficiency** by rewriting the 
  **Jenkins (Groovy)** [nightly pipeline](https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-pipelines/commit/4c83f1aecdea2c1ba2796b79839a90d4083dce88) to run in a GitHub PR 
  environment, allowing for automated testing of all 
  team-submitted PRs prior to merging, **reducing manual 
  intervention by 60%**.
- **Increased project reproducibility** by taking initiative to 
  write a [reusable GitHub parameters file](https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-pipelines/commit/4c83f1aecdea2c1ba2796b79839a90d4083dce88#diff-7d2c018dafbccec859077d19bf1ade53ec9c7649f235528ce89f5632b109f7e6) for the pipeline, 
  **enabling 100% reusability** and ensuring consistent pipeline 
  setups across different environments.
- **Streamlined developer onboarding** by authoring 
  comprehensive [project documentation](https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-operator/blob/1534c03d1d26bec08a16608a775782bf8b305de9/docs/GUIDE_FOR_KOGITO_DEVS.md) and mentoring an 
  incoming intern, **reducing onboarding time by 50%** and 
  enhancing new team members' productivity within their 
  first sprint.

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**TypeScript**, **JavaScript**, **React**, **Node.js**, **Python**, **Django**, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Bash, **Git**, **Linux**, **Command Line**, Go(Lang), AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker (Compose), Jenkins, Groovy, Solidity, C  

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{{% resume/education name="University of Toronto (St. George)"
title="Computer Science Specialist — 3.84 GPA (CS). Graduated with High Distinction." date="2019 — 2024" %}}

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