Andrew Dinh

Work Experience

Apple

Software Engineer - Proactive Intelligence

FEB 2022 - OCT 2023

Worked on a project to generate a private knowledge graph from on-device data to provide personalized suggestions to users
Designed a highly-performant system that could save its progress and continue at a later time in order to keep battery usage to a minimum
Reduced CPU and memory usage by 15% by analyzing stack traces and memory graphs
Added diagnostics and client-side metrics to triage issues affecting power users

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Apple

Software Engineer Intern - Ad Platforms

MAY 2021 - AUG 2021

Implemented features in backend infrastructure to assist the sales team with keeping track of employee compensation and client onboarding status
Collaborated with partner teams to coordinate data scheme changes so their data analytics pipelines could correctly consume and interpret upstream updates
Worked closely with QA to validate backwards compatibility and ensure a smooth upgrade

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SumUp Analytics

Software Engineer

DEC 2019 - OCT 2020

Performed text analysis on search engine results to categorize and extract relevant keywords
Designed a browser extension and corresponding REST API to display results in webpages
Created Jupyter notebooks to visualize and compare performance of various NLP models

Nucleus SDK

Rush Order

Full Stack Engineer

JUL 2019 - JAN 2020

Improved page load times by 25% by optimizing inefficient JavaScript and SQL queries
Redesigned the internal website to be mobile-responsive, including a mobile navigation menu

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Education

University of California, Berkeley

B.A in Computer Science

AUG 2019 - DEC 2021

Data Structures, Efficient Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Security, Database Systems, Information Devices and Systems, Programming Languages and Compilers, Artificial Intelligence

Gavilan College

A.S in Computer Programming |

A.A in Natural Science

AUG 2015 - AUG 2019

C++, Python, UNIX/Linux, Java, Assembly Language, Discrete Structures, Webpage Authoring, Human Anatomy & Physiology

Projects

System Administration

Self-hosted network services and web applications

Docker, Linux, Nginx, Apache

Self-hosts web applications and network services using multiple Linux servers
Deployed Nextcloud to sync files, calendar, and reminders between mobile and desktop devices
Utilized Docker to easily containerize and upgrade applications while using Nginx as a reverse proxy to serve each on its own subdomain
Uses Nginx to reverse proxy services and serve this website

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Via

An efficient text editor written in Rust

Rust, CLI, piece table

Inspired by Vim, supporting its keybindings and basic commands
Ability to use a mouse to move the cursor and select text
Implemented a piece table data structure for efficiently inserting text
Designed from the start to handle text files of arbitrarily large sizes by only loading what fits in the viewport

GitHub

Death Code

Share your secrets after death

Python, Flask, Docker

Utilizes Shamir's Secret Sharing scheme to safely share secrets with others
After splitting a secret among a group of people, the secret can only be reconstructed once a sufficient number of people combine their parts together, presumably only after you are gone from this earth
Has a CAPTCHA for preventing brute-force attempts

Demo GitHub

Fund Indicators

Python application to find indicators of mutual fund performance

Python, Beautiful Soup, NumPy, qualitative analysis

Allows investors to easily find relationships between various attributes of mutual funds and previous performance
Designed to be extremely reliable and error-tolerant by using multiple data sources and caching requests
Based off the research detailed in Performance Indicators of Mutual Funds, this program uses NumPy to analyze results and calculate key values to make predictions

GitHub

Competitions

Allium Hacks

Coding competition

Gilroy | 1st Place

Web application that allowed users to have real-time, collaborative conversations with an artificial intelligence implementation named Jade
WebSockets and Flask were used to create a seamless conversation with Jade AI

Jade AI

CyberPatriot

Cybersecurity competition

San Jose | 3rd place

Worked in a mock scenario to upgrade the infrastructure of a company that had recently suffered a data breach
Implemented best security and operational practices while maintaining the specific company settings, software and data intact

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Cal Hacks 6.0

World’s largest collegiate hackathon

UC Berkeley

Created AJA Messenger, an Android app which filters spam using machine learning
Collaborated with companies like Google and Facebook, utilizing their existing technologies to create our own mobile application

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California Cyber Innovation Challenge

Cybersecurity competition

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Collected and analyzed a combination of digital and physical evidence in order to stop a healthcare themed cyber plot
Utilized state-of-the-art forensive tools including Wireshark and Burp Suite to extract and collect digital evidence
Used a combination of technical, analytical and persuasive skills to "prove our case" to a panel of judges

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Skills

Languages

Python
Java
C
Go
Rust
OCaml

Software

Docker
Linux
Nginx
Apache

Web Development

HTML
JavaScript
jQuery
Bootstrap
SQL

Other

Browser extensions
LaTeX
Google Suite
Microsoft Office
Cybersecurity

Interests

Volunteering

OCF | Circle K | JPOG

Helping the community, one step at a time

OCF: Student organization dedicated to free computing for all UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff
Circle K: Student-led organization dedicated to service, leadership, and fellowship
JPOG: A free, weekly tutoring program teaching subjects including Spanish, piano, and computer programming

OCF Circle K