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Name Jacky Chen
Professional Title Software Developer & Data Analytics
Email jchen8173@gmail.com
Location Vancouver, British Columbia

Professional Summary

MSc Applied Computing student at BCIT specializing in full-stack development, machine learning, and data analytics. Seeking full-time opportunities starting December 2026.

Experience

  • 2026 - 2026

    Vancouver, BC (Hybrid)

    Mobile App Developer Co-op Intern
    Obodo Development Corp.
    4-month Mitacs Business Strategy Internship focusing on full-stack mobile development with React Native.
    • Full-stack mobile application development
  • 2025 - Present

    Vancouver, BC

    Junior Educator
    IE Education
    Private tutoring in mathematics and computer science for K-12 and AP students.
    • AP Calculus and AP Computer Science A
    • Pre-Calculus and middle school math/science
  • 2026 - Present

    Burnaby, BC

    Student Research Assistant
    British Columbia Institute of Technology
    Computational biology research using plant tissue growth simulation.
    • Extended semicircular leaf model with auxin transport
    • C++ and Python development with VirtualLeaf/Organism-Tissue Simulator
    • Paraview visualization
  • 2025 - 2025

    Remote

    Data Analytics Specialist (CSJ)
    Glocal Foundation of Canada
    Data analytics internship analyzing youth-related datasets and creating visualizations for the GLOCAL Foundation
    • Data cleaning and analysis with R
    • Interactive visualizations with React and Plotly
  • 2022 - 2023

    New Westminster, BC

    Student Research Assistant
    Douglas College
    Bioinformatics research analyzing genomic data.
    • RNA-seq data analysis

Education

  • 2025 - 2026

    Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Master of Science
    British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
    Applied Computing
    • Expected graduation December 2026
    • Focus on full-stack development, machine learning, and data analytics
  • 2019 - 2024

    Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Bachelor of Science
    University of British Columbia (UBC)
    Computer Science and Microbiology & Immunology
    • Combined major in Computer Science and Microbiology & Immunology
    • Bioinformatics research experience

Projects

  • TutorSpace

    Full-stack tutoring management platform with session scheduling, role-based authentication, and student tracking.

    • Spring Boot backend with JWT authentication
    • Next.js and React frontend
    • PostgreSQL database with JPA
  • Youth Data Explorer

    Interactive data visualization platform for GLOCAL Foundation of Canada.

    • React and Plotly for interactive charts
    • R data pipeline processing
    • Deployed on GitHub Pages
  • BC COVID-19 Dashboard

    Public health data visualization dashboard using Power BI.

    • BCCDC open data integration
    • Two-page interactive dashboard
    • Time-series and regional analysis
  • Indoor Visual Place Recognition

    Evaluation of DINOv2 for indoor place recognition tasks.

    • Zero-shot retrieval with DINOv2
    • PyTorch implementation
    • NYC Indoor VPR dataset

Skills

Programming Languages (Advanced): TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, SQL, R
Frontend Development (Advanced): React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap
Backend Development (Advanced): Spring Boot, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL
Data Science & ML (Intermediate): PyTorch, scikit-learn, LightGBM, Pandas, NumPy
Data Analytics & Visualization (Advanced): Power BI, Plotly, R, SQL, Data Pipelines
Tools & Technologies (Advanced): Git, Docker, VS Code, Jupyter, Linux/WSL

Languages

English : Native proficiency
Mandarin : Professional working proficiency

Interests

Software Engineering: Full-stack development, Web applications, System design
Machine Learning: Computer vision, Natural language processing, Model interpretability
Data Science: Data visualization, Analytics, Business intelligence