Jiexi Luan

Software Engineer | Digital Nomad

(925) 207 8397 - hello@jiexi.co - http://jiexi.co | Facebook - LinkedIn - Github

Interests: Travel, Videography, Mechanical Keyboards, Electric Skateboarding, PC Gaming, and Software Development

Experience	Senior Software Engineer: Originate (Remote), 2019 - present Architected niche news aggregation, extraction, analysis system Coordinated multi-disciplinary team on product ideation and creation Software Engineer: Originate (San Francisco, CA), 2015 - 2019 Improved leads in top niche e-commerce site via flexible predictive search Balanced operation and improvement of serverless niche search engine Executed implementation of several internal company projects Proved viability of fully remote work during year of travel around the world Software Engineer Intern: Originate (Los Angeles, CA), 2014 - 2015 Practiced TDD to develop Node.js web app following MVC pattern Worked with multidisciplinary team on sprints and code reviews Developed an automated fantasy sports betting bot for intern project System Admin: Pleasant Paper Recycling (Concord, CA), 2013 - present Established multi-location network of POS/IOT devices via IPSec VPN Interacted with MS SQL, RDP, Schedulers on MS Server 2008 R2 Maintained software and hardware for their working life cycles Freelancer: Dan Helix for Mayor (Concord, CA), 2012 Developed front-end for political campaign website Setup MX server and DNS entries for incoming and outgoing emails
Education	Bachelor of Science: University of California Los Angeles, 2011 - 2015 Computer Science Developed virtual reality game in UE4 that was presented at SIGGRAPH High School Diploma: College Park High School, 2007 - 2011 High Honors, Math Certificate, Science Certificate
Projects	Remote Year Participant: Work Travel Program, 2017 - 2018 Traveled around the world for a year while keeping regular work schedule Learned novice videography skills by making several travel videos Documented daily experiences by recording single second everyday Captured one polaroid a day into compiled album of all places visited AdTwixt: URL Shortener with Interstitial Captcha Ads, 2013 Developed efficient scripts that served traffic in the millions per month Established small network of publishers and advertisers Miuzer: Community Generated Music Library, 2011 Developed web 2.0 music player based with code from TheCloudPlayer Replaced Rails backend with stripped down PHP version FileFx: File Sharing with CPA Integration, 2010 Created distributed/scalable system for serving user uploaded files Became publisher on majority of industry leading CPA advertising networks Grew group of participants in revenue sharing program PHPMyMirror: File Mirroring Script, 2009 Designed file mirroring addon for popular file sharing script Distributed over 50 licenses across several releases Craze.cc: Social Topic Discussion, 2008 Developed Reddit-like topic discussion website with Pligg Recevied over 14,000 organic visits per month Sold for $895 and continued development as freelancer Uber-Upload: File Mirroring Website, 2007 Developed file sharing website that mirrored files to other file sharing sites Sold for $139
Skills	Software: Algolia, AngularJS, Bootstrap, C++, CSS, CodeIgniter, Coffeescript, Cucumber, Firebase, GraphQL, Headless Chromium, HTML, JQuery, Javascript, Lexalytics, MS SQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Node.js, Objective C, PHP, PhantomJS, PostgreSQL, React, Redis, Ruby on Rails, SASS, Selenium, Stylus, Typescript