Yipeng Xin's Resume

Yipeng Xin

Nickname: jn_xyp

中文版本

Technical Skills

Programming Languages
Proficient: Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Intermediate: Java, Haskell
Frameworks & Tools
Django, Flask, NodeJS, ReactJS

NumPy, Pandas, Scrapy, Prefect

MySQL, SQLite, Db2
Others
Ubuntu/Linux OS

AWS, Azure & Aliyun Services

Awards

Microsoft Research AI School Excellent Project Award (3^rd prize, 2021)
McMaster President's Entrance Scholarship
Certificate of Distinction in the Canadian Computing Competition
(Junior 2017 & Senior 2018).

Hobby

Cooking

Table tennis

Photography

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Last modified: Oct. 16, 2021
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Education

McMaster University

Hamilton ON

Expected Completion, April 2023
GPA: 3.9

Honours Computer Science Co-op
Bachelor of Computer Science, currently in the third year
Relevant Courses: Concurrent Systems (COMPSCI 3SD3), Databases (COMPSCI 3DB3), Discrete Math with Applications (COMPSCI 2FA3), Principles of Programming (COMPSCI 2S03)

Project

Starsector Chinese Forum

www.fossic.org

April 2018 - Present

Developed and operated a specialized online forum and officially recognized player community for an indie game "Starsector", with 5k unique visitors per week and 30k registered users
Deeply customized an existing PHP and JS-based CMS to meet the modern security and user experience demands, including a responsive mobile interface for non-PC users
Use Object Storage Services and CDN network to optimize the website and attachments access performance

Hack the North - Memoritis

September 2019

A visualized web app to preserve and share valuable memories with others with similar experiences powered by NLP and machine learning, responsible for the front-end UI design and implementation.
Backend implemented in Python with Flask application server; Google Video Intelligence APIs and word2vec were used to extract the features of uploaded videos and build the connectivity graph
The frontend is implemented as a single-page app (SPA) built with ReactJS and bootstrap, graph visualization implemented with cytoscape.js.

Danmaku Filtering Tools for Bilibili.com

June 2016 - Sept. 2018

A pattern matching based Danmaku (video comments) filtering tool for Bilibili.com, a famous online video-sharing community in China
Using regular expressions to match and filter vulgar words and unfriendly speeches, such as racial or geographical discrimination contents and able to merge and streamline repetitive contents with edit distance and other NLP algorithms
300+ stars on GitHub, with 20+ forks

Work Experience

Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

Sept 2020 – Sept 2021

Analyze the huge number of incidents that emerged from the Azure cloud computing system and their mitigation steps, develop internal tools to automate the procedures in the life cycle of each incident, detect or even predict the outage, thereby improving the stability of the Azure infrastructures.
Responsible for the maintenance and development of an internal tool for estimating and predicting the radius of the impact of outages. Optimized the performance to allow it to handle the alert storm caused by major accidents, and successfully migrate the tool to the Office 365 team's incident management platform.
Also participated in the development of the front-end visualization for our tools, and the design of the data monitoring and processing pipelines.

Data Analysis Intern

Inspur, Shandong, China

July – August 2019

Assisted with training data collecting and cleaning, including building web spider programs using Scrapy framework, and the automation of spider deployment and data cleaning process using Python language and SQLite DB.

Voluntary Programming Course Tutor

March – June 2017

Holding 1.5-hour-long after school tutoring sessions three times a week for students attending grade 11 and 12 Java or Python courses
Prepared organized course content handouts, as well as inspiring review questions that help students to deepen the overall understanding of the programming concepts