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Resume 2019-02-11T07:50:51-05:00 false

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{{% resume/work-experience name="Red Hat" title="Cloud/Software Engineer Intern" date="May 2020 — Aug 2021" %}}

  • Reduced deployment time by 66% by implementing ability to deploy locally-compiled binaries onto Kubernetes/OpenShift using only command-line (Golang used for this and below).
  • Implemented ability for Kubernetes operator to fetch data from a deployed service and update config with data.
  • Added startup probes to handle starting legacy application containers that require additional startup time.
  • Refactored probes to have default values assigned based on deployed YAML while also fixing reconciliation issues.
  • Rewrote the Jenkins nightly pipeline to run in a GitHub PR using a trigger keyword.
  • Wrote documentation on how to get started with the project to onboard new developers and mentored the incoming intern.

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{{% resume/project name="AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform" url="https://kevin-mok.com/server/" date="May 2024" show="true" %}}

  • Deployed various web apps using Docker (Compose) on an AWS EC2 Debian/Linux server.
  • Created Kubernetes manifest files to quickly recreate my server setup with persistent storage/restarts and open ports.
  • Created Terraform files to deploy an AWS EC2 instance and Docker containers.
  • Used Amazon Route 53's DNS and NGINX to route subdomains to each web application.
  • Used AWS security groups to allow inbound HTTPS traffic.
  • Used Amazon EBS snapshots to regularly back up server.
  • Wrote a JavaScript server script and systemd service/timer to display the uptime of my pages every hour.

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{{% resume/project name="Rarity Surf" date="Oct 2021" show="true" %}}

  • Web app to give rarity rankings to NFT's within minutes of their metadata being revealed and check which are listed (based on rarity and price filters) on the OpenSea marketplace using their API.
  • Reverse engineered the ranking algorithm to match the leading rarity ranking site's rankings (scraped using Selenium) with a discrepancy of <0.25%.
  • Used app to frontrun purchases of top 5% rarity NFT's against competing buyers.
  • Wrote Django (Python) backend to fetch metadata from IPFS, store rarity rankings in PostgreSQL and serve rarity data using GraphQL.
  • Wrote React frontend with hooks to dynamically load rarity data. Styled with Tailwind.

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

  • Created for a 36 hour hackathon (UofTHacks X) where it came 2nd overall.
  • Created and deployed a smart contract with Solidity on the Ethereum blockchain to create/buy/sell NFT's using MetaMask.
  • Wrote a React hook to fetch and show listed NFT's, NFT details and owned NFT's.
  • Used API to synchronously upload images and metadata to IPFS.

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

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{{% resume/education name="University of Toronto" title="Computer Science Specialist — 3.84 GPA (CS). Graduated with High Distinction." date="2018 — 2023" %}}

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