I'm a first-generation college student studying Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating in Spring 2024. I am an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Computer Science Senior Capstone course. Last summer, I interned at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer Intern. I am happy to share that I will be returning to Amazon as a full-time Software Development Engineer! 😃 In the wild, you might find me playing 2K or rooting for the Timberwolves. Feel free to reach out to me at kevinpho970@gmail.com.
B.S. in Computer Science
• Clubs: Software Development Club, Web Development Club, Asian American Student Union
• CheeseHacks 2021 Hackathon Participant
• Dean's List
• Century S-STEM Scholarship
• Workforce Development Scholarship
• Delivered instructional sessions on Agile methodologies and course-specific material to students.
• Monitored 8 teams and reported on students' progress, providing insights to the course instructor for continuous improvement of the capstone experience.
• Assisted 100 students in developing their capstone projects by providing mentorship and problem-solving support.
• Designed and developed a lifestyle recommendation engine web application for Capital One that gives customers personalized recommendations.
• Collaborated on a team of 10 members and 3 Capital One mentors using the Scrum framework with 1-week sprints, daily stand-ups, and weekly demos.
• Implemented an algorithm to give users their best recommended credit cards and integrated multiple APIs on the backend to request calls and send data back to the frontend.
• Incorporated Design Thinking techniques to prototype and learn more about our customers’ problems and needs via a Google Design Sprint
• Collaborated in a team of 7 to create a social event platform using the MERN stack that helps enrich underprivileged students and their local communities using socialization, gamification, and personalization.
• Developed and designed the frontend web application ensuring compatibility & accessibility on all devices, using React and Bootstrap.
• Led a team of 5 to design and create a dorm review website designated to help incoming and current students choose which dorm is best suited for them, which currently has accumulated and assisted over 7,000 users.
• Programmed with HTML/CSS, EJS, and Bootstrap, to design and develop MadHousing's user interface and user experience, which currently has over 39,000 page visits.
• Engineered the backend security with Node.js, preventing bad actors from negatively affecting the website, using input security validation and reCAPTCHA.
• Defined, organized, and monitored current and future objectives with 1 team meeting every week.
• Developed a Unix shell in C from scratch with built-in commands and basic shell command support, such as cd, ls, grep, echo, cat, and more.
• Implemented a pipe feature that allows users to pipe the output of one command into another command.
• Implemented a redirection feature that allows users to redirect the output of a command to a file.
• Fetches weather data from OpenWeather API and uses the Twitter API to automatically send 1 Tweet of the weather per day.
• Hosted online via Heroku, collects weather data from the OpenWeather API and uses the Twitter API to Tweet.
• Accumulated a total of 591 Tweet impressions and 1,300 profile visits on Twitter in 7 days.
• Programmed with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap, created this website that I use as a personal portfolio.
• Hosted on the cloud 24/7 and updated online via GitHub.
• Follows W3C standards.
• Developed using Node.js and with the Discord API to create a chatbot that automatically performs actions when given a command.
• Hosted online 24/7 via Heroku, updated via GitHub.
• Used in multiple servers with a total of 176 active users.
• Using Java's GUI, created a shopping cart application that simulates online shopping in the form of a runnable program.
• Created with the focus of studying Object-Oriented Programming.