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About
My name is Melissa Deng. I am a software engineering student at the University of Waterloo by day and an artist at night.
Passionate for imagination and problem-solving, I thrive to deliver smooth web experience to users. My ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between creativity and functionality, turning ideas into realities through my coding skills.
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Experience
Backend Developer • Intact Financial Corporation (IFC)
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 • Montreal, QC • HybridIntact Financial Corporation (IFC) is a Canadian multinational property and casualty insurance company founded in 1809. With over 30 000 employees, Intact is the largest provider of property & casualty insurance in Canada.
- Strengthened the security of all six services within my team by addressing 95% of CVEs in a Spring Boot-based microservices architecture, ensuring timely updates of Maven dependencies to mitigate vulnerabilities and risks
- Developed backend features using MapStruct for efficient data mapping and encapsulation, and implemented unit/component tests to improve system functionality, reliability, and efficiency in online purchase processes
- Leveraged tools like Kafka, Dynatrace, and test-driven development practices to optimize performance and adapt solutions to Intact's technical and operational context
Front End Developer • The Altitude Platform
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024 • Toronto, ON • HybridBased in Toronto, The Altitude Platform is a cloud-based media creative platform. It helps users manage and plan their marketing campaign more efficiently while ensuring creativity.
- Redesigned the company's marketing website using React.js and Next.js, achieving a 30% increase in user engagement
- Developed an interactive dashboard using Vite and TypeScript to track company sales and financial performance
- Created over 15 dynamic and interactive ad units with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for successful marketing campaigns
- Assisted in the implementation of features powered by OpenAI GPT-4 within the company's platform, leveraging Express.js and adhering to the MVC architecture principles
Software Quality Analyst • Infrastructures for Information (i4i)
May 2023 - Sep 2023 • Toronto, ON • Remotei4i is an independent software company specialized in the delivery of XML / SGML document processing based in Toronto. Besides manual testing, I also worked on an internal tool that simplifies the conversion of Excel data into structured content with unique code numbers, eliminating the need for manual data entry.
- Identified 10% of software defects and confirmed 15% of resolved issues using Zoho bug tracking
- Delved into different testing types including functional, non-functional, regression, and performance testing
- Used XML for configuration and Python (ElementTree) to convert Excel data into structured content with unique code numbers
- Enhanced project's portability by standardizing file paths and file I/O
- Improved the user interface using Python (Tkinter) to be more user-friendly
Projects
GRTNow
GRTNow is a transit schedule viewing and trip planning platform for the Grand River Transit network located in Kitchener/Waterloo.
Chess
Chess is an abstract strategy boardgame for two players that involves no hidden elements and no elements of chance.
EEIL-Style Citations
EEIL-Style Citations is an automated citation generating tool for high school students attending l'École d'éducation internationale de Laval (EEIL).
Hackathon Global Event Website
As a challenge project for Hack The North, this project features the event page of a hackathon to view and filter all upcoming events.
Tasteasy
Tasteasy is a mobile recipe-generating application that facilitates decision-making for meals as it considers the currently available ingredients
Emolock
The Emolock is a emotion-based electromagnetic solenoid lock that unlocks upon recognizing the correct facial emotion sequence.