Resume

    • Simon Tang

    Work Experience

    Lead Developer at Connected (now Thoughtworks Canada)2019 - Present

    Connected was a cross-disciplinary firm that specialized in end-to-end product discovery and delivery for Fortune 500 clients.

    Client 4: Fitness Technology Company (2023 - Present)

    • Currently prototyping a digital fitness experience that integrates exercise equipment with gaming and immersive social experiences (Unity, C#, F#)
    • Introduced custom binary serializers to compress large Unity assets, achieving a 90% reduction in selected files
    • Authored architectural documents (ADRs) to plan major changes and document complex systems for stakeholders

    Client 2: Social Technology Company (2021 - 2023)

    • Optimized a team-building chatbot and web app for mobile devices by introducing responsive design, resulting in a sevenfold increase in ad conversion rates; featured on Product Hunt in 2022 (React, GraphQL, StyleX, Hack/PHP)
    • Updated company-wide code libraries for processing cookie consent, coordinating across multiple internal teams to resolve urgent GDPR concerns; built a versioned 3D asset management system for a prototype VR app; developed Firebase integrations to load user-generated media into automated content safety systems

    Client 1: Automotive Company (2019 - 2021)

    • Built a global predictive analytics platform using Apache Spark and Spring that captures billions of daily data points, and produces daily vehicle prognostics for millions of drivers; launched in six countries across NA and EU (Java, Python, Hive, SQL Server, Jupyter)
    • Developed cross-functional initiatives to address technical debt; reduced daily compute time by 75% by optimizing data processing algorithms; built custom tooling to eliminate weeks of manual validation processes

    Rangle.io2018 - 2019

    • Built Rangle's new JAMstack-powered website, with a strong emphasis on fully accessible design (WCAG 2.0 AA), responsive (mobile-friendly) design, codeless layout control, and CMS integration (React, GatsbyJS, Contentful)
    • Launched a secure online portal for healthcare providers to monitor and visualize blood glucose levels for patients; optimized data visualizations by applying performance benchmarking in the web browser (React, TypeScript)

    Education

    University of Waterloo

    Bachelor of Computer Science / Human-Computer Interaction Option / Cooperative Education

    Computer Security

    • macOS - A local vulnerability to bypass the macOS fast user switching screen. (credits)
    • Salesforce - An XSS vulnerability to execute arbitrary JavaScript code across affected web domains. (credits)