Experience

• Google, Inc. — Software Engineer (11/2014–present)
  Built a full-fledged PDF to HTML converter for Google Scholar from the ground up using modern C++11 idioms. Also worked on OCR, data backup, citation counting, and miscellaneous maintenance tasks in C++ and Python.
• Google, Inc. — Software Engineering Intern (05/2013–08/2013)
  Refactored Google Flight Search logic from Java to C++ and built a pipeline to analyze and optimize its performance.
• Facebook, Inc. — Software Engineering Intern (05/2012–08/2012)
  Built original version of the My Apps page (now Your Games). Current version live hereat http://facebook.com/games/manage.
• Facebook, Inc — Software Engineering Intern (04/2011–08/2011)
  Implemented new API features for Facebook Platform (PHP) and Ads (C++).

Education

Achievements

• Top 200, 2013 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
• 12^th place team (University of Waterloo), 2011 ACM-ICPC World Finals
• Silver medal, International Olympiad in Informatics (2010, 2009)
• Silver medal, International Chemistry Olympiad (2010)
• C++ gold badge on Stack Overflow Stack Overflow (profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/481267/brian)
• Quora Top Writer 2014–2018

Projects

• PEG JudgePEG Judge (http://wcipeg.com) — an online judge for algorithmic contest problems. Includes both a website and a backend server that compiles user-submitted code and uses Unix system calls to sandbox its execution.
• Common algorithms and data structures for the ACM-ICPC Common algorithms and data structures for the ACM-ICPC (https://github.com/t3nsor/codebook)
• PEGWikiPEGWiki (http://wcipeg.com/wiki) — a wiki devoted to algorithmic techniques for programming contests

Other skills

• Familiarity with C, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, x86 assembly language
• Experience administering a GNU/Linux server running services such as HTTP, mail, and IRC