IT Analyst Intern

Canada Border Services Agency – Ottawa, ON

May – Aug 2022

• Increased new hire productivity by reducing permissions script runtime by 50% with a more efficient algorithm, saving up to a day of onboarding, using VBScript and Unified Functional Testing
• Improved permissions script quality by presenting pseudocode to senior team members and iterating on feedback

ValoGraphs

• Enabled 800+ monthly visitors to identify gameplay weaknesses by processing performance data from third-party REST APIs into >7 data visualizations using Express, React, Node.js and Bootstrap
• Decreased latency of backend API calls by >60% by caching responses in a database using PostgreSQL and TypeORM
• Reduced development time by 10% by automating testing and deployment using GitHub Actions and AWS CLI scripts
• Developed a suite of 41 unit and integration tests using Jest and SuperTest, and achieved 100% branch coverage

FileBox

• Simplified at-home file sharing and management for 30+ users by developing a file management web application using Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, MongoDB, Amazon S3 and Auth0
• Secured access to data on S3 and MongoDB Atlas by implementing Auth0 authentication for 8 API routes
• Developed dialog components for file upload, file sharing and changing account settings using shadcn and Tailwind
• Enhanced security by enforcing time-limited access to download links using the s3-request-presigner package

MangaDex Downloader

• Decreased chapter acquisition time from 2 minutes to 10 seconds for 50+ users by developing a CLI tool in Python that allows efficient search and download of manga
• Reduced download times by >90% by integrating aiohttp and asyncio to enable parallel processing of downloads
• Increased codebase maintainability by establishing an automated testing pipeline using Pytest and GitHub Actions
• Ensured cross-platform compatibility by using the windows-curses package and platform-specific error handling

Image to PDF Converter

• Developed a Python CLI tool that enables 10+ users to merge images into PDFs with 5 processing features (file ordering, file exclusion, etc.), providing a secure offline solution
• Streamlined development by efficiently managing dependencies and virtual environments using Poetry

Portfolio Website (Terminal Variant)

• Created an interactive, Linux terminal-inspired alternate portfolio using Next.js, React and Tailwind CSS
• Optimized testing workflow by automating 19 end-to-end Cypress tests using GitHub Actions
• Implemented 6 commands and 13+ unique responses, increasing user engagement and improving interactivity

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