About 🙋♂️
Software Developer
👋 Hey, I'm Nigel! I'm a computer science student graduate from Concordia University.
- Birthday: 11 Dec 1999
- Born in: Mauritius
- Now in: Montreal
- Degree: Computer Science
- Email: hey[at]nigelyong[.]com
- Phone: +1 438-223-3900
Experienced in building software. When I'm not working on a project, I'm most likely spending time with my friends or family, training for competitive arm wrestling, reading a self-improvement/ psychology book or just chilling not taking life seriously. :)
Skills 🧰
Here are the tools and technologies I have worked with!
Python
Java
C++
HTML
CSS
JS
PHP
Flask
Vue
Angular
SQL
Jupyter
Numpy
Scikit-learn
Tensorflow
PyTorch
Digital Ocean
Docker
GitHub
Google Cloud
Heroku
Netlify
Travis CI
Jenkins
Linux
AWS
Flutter
Postgres
Resume 💼
Summary
Nigel Yong Sao Young
Tech enthusiast
- Montreal, Canada
- hey[at]nigelyong[.]com
Education
BSC in Computer Science with Honour, 2021
2018 - 2021
Concordia University, Montreal
Courses: Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Operating Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Pattern Recognition, Databases, OOP.
Cambridge A level
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
College du Saint Esprit, Mauritius
A* in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science.
Ranked 3rd out of 966 students in Computer Science at National Level.
Awards
1st place in Category + 3rd Best Overall
Hackatown 2021
Awarded 1st place in Agriculture and Food category and 3rd Best Overall.
SAP Challenge winner
ConUHacks V Hackathon
Awarded for the best usage of SAP Cloud Technology.
Best Project
TOHacks 2021
Awarded 1000$ for winning the Intact Challenge - Improve Customer Satisfaction
Concordia University Entrance Scholarship
Concordia University
Awarded a total of 15k CAD.
Professional Experience
Founder & CTO
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Categen Ventures
- Founded pikapoint.io, an online food ordering storefront hosting 100+ restaurant websites across Quebec & Ontario with 150k+ cash flow per month.
- Integrated and partnered with Doordash, Stripe, Bambora, Eva Coop and Talad POS
- Optimized and set up a scalable and distributed infrastructure on AWS with ALB and auto-scaling.
- Published PikaPoint Staff on the App and Play store, allowing staff to manage orders in real-time.
- Mentored and guided by experts. Led a team of 6 including interns, developers, graphic designers and outsource teams with the Agile methodology.
- Laravel PHP, Flutter, Nuxt 3, AWS (EC2, S3, ALB, RDS), Cloudflare, MySQL, GCP, Docker, etc.
Technology Analyst Co-op
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Morgan Stanley
- Led the LightStreamer (LS) upgrade migration project, which provides real-time pub/sub market data and content-based transfer.
- Onboarded, tested and deployed the latest version (LS7) to upgrade 5000+ active LS instances.
- Developed new LS adapters with backward compatibility (LS6 and LS5) for developers to upgrade without updating any code, saving developers time and effort.
- Java, Angular, Jenkins, JUnit, LightStreamer.
Technology Analyst Co-op
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Morgan Stanley
- Implemented the Blastmail metrics reporting project, providing visual insights on a huge database of data collected from sending bulk emails.
- Deployed reporting web pages to production for 100+ MS teams.
- Created a metrics REST API with 20+ endpoints from planning to deployment.
- Angular, PrimeNG, Python Flask, DB2, Jenkins.
Software Development Co-op
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Bombardier Aviation
- Launched a new Knowledge Management internal site, a centralized platform for Bombardier Employees to publish and access lessons learned and engineering documents.
- Researched the best infrastructure options for organizing and storing documents.
- Created UI elements for seamless navigation. Created a search page with custom filtering for quick document retrieval.
- Microsoft SharePoint, HTML, CSS, JS, Bootstrap
Full-stack Developer Intern
Mar 2018 - June 2018
CyberNaptics Ltd
- Created and launched a functional and user-friendly Leave Management System from scratch, eventually adopted by 40+ employees.
- Built a data entry website for a meteorological station to most efficiently input data.
- HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL, pgSQL.
Portfolio 📂
Foodbook
Foodbook is a web app that gives you your most wanted food recipies from just a picture of your food. Developed in ConUHacks V, our team won the SAP challenge.
Off-work
A leave management system that allows employees to request vacations, managers to approve or deny leaves and see an overview of who in the company is on vacation and when. Etc.
Eternity Calculator
A web application that calculates it's scientific functions without the use of any math libraries.
Face Classification
Age, Gender and Race Face Classification with conventional models, CNNs and Transfer Learning.
AI-Generated Zoology
A Pix2Pix implementation with TensorFlow. Uses cGANs to convert sketches to realistic dogs and cats images!
CopTheLook
Outfit analyzer that will segment and show different constituents of an outfit, like cardigan or shoes, along with potential websites where you can buy those individual outfit components.
Predictive Maintenance
Failure prediction on time series data. We did some EDA and feature engineering and implemented created models with Random Forest, Isolation Forest and XGB Trees.
Small Sample Learning
We explore techniques such as meta-transfer learning, transfer learning, Generative Latent Implicit Conditional Optimization (GLICO) and data augmentation using only 100 training samples of CIFAR-10.
CleverICE
CleverICE helps automate the insurance claim process for the best customer satisfaction! We leverage OCR and OpenAI GPT-3 to automatically extract relevant fields from a claim letter.
Blog 📝
Contact me 🤙
Location:
Montreal, QC, Canada
Email:
hey[at]nigelyong[.]com
Call:
+1 438 223-3900