Joshua C. Qin

Software Engineer Intern

• Worked on Azure Application Insights for Live Metrics, which provides live telemetry for Azure applications.
  • Designed a solution to gracefully handle large volumes of telemetry around distributed systems constraints.
  • Wrote concurrent code for API request handlers designed to process over a million requests every second.
  • Used C#/.NET, Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps to write, test, and deploy the solution onto Microsoft Azure.
  • Meticulously documented project architecture and code-writing practices to improve the onboarding process.

Software Engineer Intern

• Worked on multilingual natural language processing software for names matching between languages and scripts.
  • Developed in Java to add functionality to the Rosette for Names product, a commercial SDK.
  • Improved name matching scores generated via Hidden Markov Models and additional layers of adjustments.
  • Built, tested, and released new versions of Basis products using Jenkins and internal build/testing tools.
  • Contributed documentation for internal onboarding, setup, release, build, and testing processes.

Full-Stack Developer

• Led a small team of three developers to create an analytics, accounting, and submissions dashboard used to manage royalty payments of 30000 USD per month and music catalogs with over 300 million cumulative streams.
  • Used C# with ASP.NET to build the backend for the dashboard, including authentication and royalty accounting.
  • Designed and implemented from scratch a SQL Server database to store user, product, and payment data.
  • Used Bootstrap to design and create the frontend UI, including charts and analytics with charts.js.
• Created custom internal software for scraping musicians and artist data, used for partner recruitment.

Summer Intern

• Wrote an HTML Application (HTA) with a VBScript backend to automate the searching and downloading of City Council meeting documents, reducing a task that took four hours every week to just twenty seconds.
• Used VBA scripting to automate record-keeping on Excel spreadsheets pertaining to budgets and historical records.
• Handled front-desk and phone support, managed paperwork for candidates running for local office.

• Led a team of four to design, develop, and prototype an IoT moisture sensor and associated dashboard designed to improve urban forestry outcomes. The dashboard used Bootstrap and ASP.NET Core and provided an interface for an Azure IoT Hub backend. This project received a buy-in from the Office of the City Arborist at the City of San José and won the first-place prize at the 2021 Microsoft US Azure IoT Hack for Sustainability.
• Created a real time web-based instant messaging client powered by SignalR Core and ASP.NET Identity Core.
• Developed an unofficial TikTok analytics API that provided access to public-facing user data and statistics.
• Designed and developed animation software that includes drag-and-drop resizable shapes, timelines, layers, keyframes, a built-in player, and export to SVG using Java, Swing, and MVC object-oriented development principles.
• Recreated the classic Atari arcade game Centipede using Java and functional design principles.
• Developed a Python data analytics program to visualize the association between COVID-19 cases/deaths and socioeconomic status, using county median income levels and NYT’s COVID-19 tracker dataset.

Hackathons

• First place national prize-winner for Microsoft Azure IoT Hack for Sustainability.
• First place winnder in the travel category and top four overall at YHACK 2021, hosted by Yale.
• Third place winner at HackUMassX, "Best Educational Accessibility Hack" at HackHarvard 2022, and 2nd place in the Azure category HackMIT 2020

Northeastern University