Anna (Kexin) Guo

Software engineer I | Uberflip July 2022 - July 2024

• Participated in the technical design and development and of a page building web application from scratch
• Lead development of small-to-medium features from technical design through completion
• Worked on various code bases and gained proficiency with Typescript, Next.js, React, Mongodb, SQL, PHP
• Wrote clean and error free code and consistently followed stated best practices
• Won the company wide hackathon competition with a team of 6 and built a chatbot that can answer questions based on the input data

Software developer | The Hospital for Sick Children September 2020 - April 2022

STAGER  (https://github.com/ccmbioinfo/stager)

A web application that enables information management for large-scale genomics and other omics projects

• Worked extensively on the front-end development with Typescript, React, Material-UI
• Implemented, reviewed and debugged new features
• Actively participated in UI designs with Figma and designed a logo for STAGER

Crescent: CanceR Single Cell ExpressioN Toolkit (https://github.com/pughlab/crescent-frontend)

A web portal incorporating a containerized pipeline execution engine for standardized analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data

• Participated on both front-end and back-end development
• Gained experience with React, Javascript, Semantic-UI, Redux for front-end development and GraphQL, Python, JavaScript and MongoDB for back-end development
• Implemented new data visualization methods including dot plot, InferCNV heatmap, GSVA heatmap
• Implemented plot saving feature, compare plots page, upload component and other quality of life improvement
• Helped with interviewing candidates and onboarding new co-op students

Game Development Course Project

• Led a group of 8 students from different disciplines to develop a first-person 3D puzzle game with Unity
• Was responsible for hosting weekly meetings, managing project timeline, distributing tasks and testing the game
• Designed all six levels and most of the puzzles
• Implemented the puzzles, the user interface and the event system
• Helped with 2D and 3D art

COBWEB Research Project

• Complexity and Organized Behavior Within Environmental Bounds (COBWEB) is an agent-based simulation software written in Java (Maven) that have been used by thousands of students for research in different disciplines
• Conducted extensive research and composed a literature review on genetic algorithm
• Implemented a new feature for COBWEB that allows agents of different types to reproduce, and was used by 2 groups of student last semester to conduct their research
• Trained new students on using COBWEB and developing simulations with it