About Me

Hi there, I'm Anqi (An-chee). I've been working professionally as a software engineer for almost 4 years. I experienced in building Saas applications on both frondend and backend. I'm goal-driven, highly motivated and a great team player.

During my spare time, I'm pretty active - I go to pilates, play badmintion, go ski during the cold winter. My goal in 2024 is to get to 3.0 in tennis.

I have two twin cats, Happy and Mochi, they happened to have the same birthday as me.
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Education

School

University of Toronto

Program

Computer Engineering

Degree

Bachelor of Applied Science (With Honours)

Experience

Software Engineer

Xero

Jul 2021 - Now

• Redesigned Hubdoc’s file-fetching feature from web scraping to use bank’s REST API to get documents directly, greatly reduced fetching error rate from 5% to near 0%.
• Spearheaded an initiative to improve Hubdoc’s SQL query performance, reduced CPU usage rate of multiple critical queries from 80% to 20% by introducing indexes and leveraging better access patterns
• Created a POC for a chrome extension that allow user to upload the current webpage to user’s Hubdoc account either as image or pdf, this POC got integrated into future roadmap
• Designed and created an internal interactive webapp onboarding tool that explains system domain models and got used immediately by new hires
• Developing and rewriting the Hubdoc webapp using React + TypeScript, this will enhance user experience throught more intuitive designs.

Software Developer

Varicent

Aug 2020 - July 2021

• Developed in an incentive/commission management system that enables companies to create sophisticated rules and views to help them manage compensation for their sales departmentinancial data calculation platform that tracks billions of dollar transactions from all major Canadian banks.
• Redesigned the frontend for a custom data viewer, allowing it to retrieve more advanced information as well as greatly improving pagination efficiency
• Led the effort to improve our integration test coverage, was able to increase integration test code coverage by 40%

Software Developer

Ontario Financing Authority

May 2018 - August 2019

• Developed within a mission-critical financial data calculation platform that tracks billions of dollar transactions from all major Canadian banks.
• Saved the government tens of thousands annually by optimizing multiple data retrieving algorithms
• Enriched reporting modules with more relevant information and allowed the report to be more customizable by the end-users
• Designed a data correction platform that detects and displays anomalies within the data point and provide a way for the end-user to correct said anomalies

Research Intern

University of Toronto

May 2017 - August 2017

• Developed in a web tool used to simulated computer network interaction
• Implemented an interactive web interface for users to visualize packet exchange between computer networks using JQuery
• Designed the backend data store to persist network topology for different network simulations using PHP and MySQL