Jesse Chong

Amazon

Software Development Engineer 1

Cupertino, California | Feb. 2021 - Present

https://pay.amazon.com/

Java, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, AWS, Docker

Donald Bren School of ICS

Undergraduate Researcher

Irvine, California | Oct. 2019 - Dec. 2020

Team lead and developer of the ZerO Waste Anteaters (ZOWA), a team of 15 undergraduate researchers. Working on a sustainability project called ZotBins, "A Smart Space Initiative for Zero Waste". Presented project at 4+ sustainability conferences, published research, reorganized team infrastructure, delegated different tasks to members, and developed software end-to-end with two different teams (TIPPERS for backend work and ZOWA for frontend work) to advance the project.

Java, JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, SASS

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Cupertino, California | Jun. 2020 - Sep. 2020

Wrote impactful, customer-facing software in Ruby, JavaScript, and Java.

Ruby, JavaScript, Java, AWS

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Cupertino, California | Jun. 2019 - Sep. 2019

Wrote software with Java and AWS to automate repetitive tasks.

Java, AWS

BeCreative360

Web Developer Intern

Orange County, California | Nov. 2018 - Jun. 2019

Lead web developer of 9+ responsive, mobile-friendly websites. Developed websites visited by hundreds of users across the country using HTML, CSS, & JavaScript. Refined websites with team designer feedback, client feedback, and website responsiveness testing.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, SASS

Parallel Palindrome Partitioning Program

https://github.com/jessechong/pally-parry

New York, New York | Dec. 2021 - Dec. 2021

Implemented a parallel solution for the palindrome partitioning optimization problem in Haskell. Optimized a naive sequential solution using parallel functional programming which increased algorithm speed by 2.596 times.

ZotBins

https://zotbins.github.io/

Irvine, California | Oct. 2019 - Dec. 2020

Sustainability project that serves 2 user bases—waste management and regular end users—in order to help UC Irvine reach its Zero Waste goal. ZotBins helps waste management users by visualizing various datapoints in order for them to make smarter and more efficient management decisions. Furthermore, ZotBins assists regular end users by showing them how to properly dispose of waste. Also did some mentorship work.

Barcode Label Generator

https://www.spotpos.com/barcode-printing

Orange County, California | Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2019

Developed a barcode label generator that is used by dozens of businesses nationwide. Replaced a legacy software; accelerated barcode generation process by over 95%. Allows the user to customize, generate, and print out barcode or QR code labels. Dynamically formats all generated barcodes to be printer-friendly using jQuery and CSS. Project was completed while interning at BeCreative360.

CSU Chico Formula SAE Website

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/saeformula/

Chico, California | Aug. 2018 - Nov. 2018

Developed and designed a mobile-friendly website for CSU Chico’s race car team with 20+ active members. Edited 50+ images to support website text content with Paint.NET and Adobe Photoshop. Updated and maintained the team’s website on CSU Chico’s servers with WinSCP.

The ZotBins solution to waste management using internet of things

ACM SenSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Yokohama, Japan | Nov. 2020

The growing use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has the potential to improve waste management. In this work, we present ZotBins, a system that facilitates sustainable practices for individuals and improves waste management efficiency for organizations. ZotBins consists of smart bins fitted with sensors, a waste recognition framework, and a variety of user applications. Currently, eight smart bins have been deployed in University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus and the preliminary estimates show that it improves the diversion rate (percentage of waste diverted from landfills through methods such as recycling) by about 20% while generating tens of thousands of dollars in revenue over the course of next ten years for the university.

A Photograph’s Exemplification of Borderless Christian Hakka Identity

UC Irvine Humanities Core and Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

Irvine, California | Apr. 2019

The Hakka Chinese, usually abbreviated to simply Hakka, are a minority sub-ethnic group found within the majority ethnic group Han Chinese. Unlike other Chinese sub-ethnicities, the Hakka are unique in that they do not have a place of origin. According to the Taiwanese Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, “the term “Hakka” was not originally a designation for a certain ethnic group living in a particular area”. Fittingly, the Chinese characters in the word “Hakka” is defined literally as “guest families”. Although the name Hakka has a literal meaning, the use of the term varies. As such, Hakka identity is hard to define. I argue that because Hakka identity is debatable, Hakka identity itself is symbolic for a "borderless" cultural identity that transcends social boundaries.