Grant Chiu


Location

Campbell, CA
Education
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    January 2024 - December 2024
    degree
    Master's
    major
    Computer Science
    University of Illinois
Work Experience
    Informed.IQ
    Software Engineer
    San Francisco, CA, US
    November 2021 - March 2023
    company
    Informed.IQ
    title
    Software Engineer
    overview
    - Venture-backed fintech start up with 50 employees, providing verification services on consumer credit and auto applications using AI - Optimized extraction algorithms to increase recall and precision rates by 20% for Google OCR data - Integrated and tested a new API product that accurately calculates applicant income from various documents - Ensured 100% data accuracy for incoming client information by designing and implementing a RESTful API validator - Worked on the seamless transition from a monolithic single deployment code base to a microservices architecture - Developed and maintained Terraform configurations for consistent and reproducible deployments across environments - Implemented customized metrics for each microservice using AWS CloudWatch, enabling real-time monitoring with dashboards
    Equifax
    Software Engineer Intern
    St. Louis, MO, US
    May 2021 - August 2021
    Kenway Consulting
    Full Stack Developer Intern
    Chicago, IL, US
    August 2020 - May 2021
    AGCO
    Mobile App/IoT Software Development Intern
    Champaign, IL, US
    May 2020 - August 2020
    Student Money Management Center
    Data Analyst Intern
    Urbana, IL, US
    February 2020 - May 2020
Skills
AlgorithmsAmazon Web ServicesAndroid StudioAngularJSApple IOSApple XcodeApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs)Artificial IntelligenceAutomationBackendBackup DevicesCalculationsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud ComputingCloudwatchComputer Data StorageComputer ProgrammingComputer SecurityConsultingConsumer CreditC++ (Programming Language)DashboardsData AnalysisDatabasesData CollectionData QualityData ScienceData StreamingDecision Making SkillsDjango Web FrameworkElastic BeanstalkEmployee OnboardingField Service ManagementFintechFirebaseFlask (Web Framework)Front End Software DevelopmentGeolocationGlobal Positioning Systems (GPS)Google CloudHTMLInformation TechnologyJava (Programming Language)JavaScript (Programming Language)JunitKinesiologyKnowledge of StatisticsKubernetesMachine LearningMessage Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT)MetricsMicroservicesMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointMobile Application SoftwareMobile Device ManagementMockitoMoney ManagementMySQLPostgreSQLPostmanPresentationsPython (Programming Language)ReactJSRecommender SystemsReliabilityReproducibilityRestaurant OperationRestful APIsRubyRuby on RailsSafety PrinciplesSocial MediaSoftware EngineeringSQLiteStreamlineTableau (Software)Team WorkingTerraformTypeScriptUnit TestingUser ExperienceVerilogWeb ApplicationsWeb DevelopmentWorkflows