Jian Feng

Quality, impact, passion.

Education

  • University of Waterloo (09/2023 – 04/2028): Computing and Financial Management (Honours, Co-op)
    • Majors: Computer Science, Finance, Statistics (Joint Honours)

Experience

  • Manulife — Co-op (05/2026 – 08/2026):
    • Triage ~10 weekly cloud/network infra tickets from global ETS teams via ServiceNow, owning resolution and stakeholder follow-through.
    • Built aks-onboarding-automation replacing manual ServiceNow ticket exchanges; projected to cut onboarding from days to minutes.
  • Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat — Co-op (09/2025 – 12/2025):
    • Shipped a .NET MVC module that auto-normalized job titles across 5K public firms via pattern matching; cut manual data cleaning 80%.
    • Migrated 30 test cases across 5 suites from Selenium to Katalon and stood up CI/CD on Azure DevOps, presenting demo to executives.
    • Refactored core modules of an enterprise data platform and tuned SQL queries, cutting page load 30% and improving maintainability.
  • Guangdong Tiptop Asset Management — Intern (01/2025 – 04/2025):
    • Led bottom-up research on food-service automation and industrial sensors; built a proprietary long screen on earnings, moat, and capex.
    • Built 3-statement + DCF model for Audiowell (BSE: 920491, ¥3.5B mcap, 27% rev CAGR ‘22–’24); sensitized WACC/exits for base/bear IRR.
    • Market-entry thesis for Hunan Smartcxi (commercial-kitchen EaaS); ¥50–200B TAM; labor inflation + chain penetration drive tailwinds.
  • Sanyang Technology — Intern (07/2024 – 11/2024):
    • Built Gantt visualizer of a flexible job-shop scheduling system, unblocking algorithm A/B runs on benchmark instances.
    • Shipped Spring Boot CRUD APIs for cloud reporting/BI modules, unblocking front-end dashboards and downstream ETL consumers.
  • Lansi Institute of AI in Medicine — Co-op, Remote (04/2024 – 12/2024):
    • Built genomic ETL pipelines for ~100GB multi-omics data; per-sample fan-out via Python multiprocessing cut runtime 89%.
    • Co-authored published T2D drug-target meta-analysis (68 studies); trained XGBoost, SMR, MR² to link variants to drug response.

Campus

  • UW Fintech — Analyst (10/2025 – Present):
    • Authored monthly market reports for a 50-member investment club, synthesizing macro, sector, and single-name trends for trade ideas.
  • UX Research Hub — Director (09/2024 – Present):
    • Secured 100% external sponsorship and booked a Google UXR keynote speaker, delivering flagship programming at $0 cost to the club.
    • Negotiated a cross-promotion partnership with the TikTok student chapter, expanding event reach and growing shared audience.

Projects

Top projects

  • qmj-tsx (quant research): Reproducible AQR Quality-Minus-Junk replication on Canadian equities, plus a price-derived Quality extension for TSX small-caps — paper, code, and make all pipeline.
  • MiniKV (storage engine): Crash-safe LSM-tree KV store in Go — WAL, SSTables/compaction, recovery, and throughput tuning.
  • wlp4-compiler: End-to-end WLP4 compiler (scanner, SLR(1) parser, semantic analysis, ARM64 codegen) with regression validation.
  • CabStream ETL (data engineering): Terraform + Airflow → GCS → BigQuery pipeline with dbt-modeled marts/tests and Looker Studio dashboards.
  • GhostPilot (interview copilot): Windows desktop copilot — invisible overlay, multi-provider ASR + LLM, Alt+P screenshot vision, local hybrid RAG.
  • WeAgree (crypto): Web platform for legally binding agreements — SHA‑256 integrity, KMS-backed RSA‑PSS signatures, AES‑256‑GCM encryption, blockchain anchoring.
More projects
  • VoxFlow (voice AI agent): Twilio Voice real-time agent streaming audio via WebSockets into Ultravox; n8n automation + FastAPI services.
  • Anchor (Splunk drift agent): Captures a healthy-window “golden fingerprint” and explains in plain English what drifted and which SPL to run next.
  • ExitLens (AI HR): Motivational-interviewing exit interview tool that surfaces real reasons for leaving — Tencent AI-HR 2026 entry.
  • PantryPilot (food-waste AI): Bright Data MCP grocery import + Gemini Vision receipts + agent meal-planning around near-expiry items on MongoDB Atlas.
  • AccessibilityAlly (Slack bot): Gemini-powered persona rewriter for long threads — bottom line first, acronyms defined, decisions surfaced.
  • godot-handrow (game UI): Godot 4.6 + C# Balatro-style card UI — hover, drag, reorder, punch animations, custom shaders, reusable component.
  • DungeonSpire (C++ roguelike): Terminal dungeon crawler with RAII, interface-separated simulation/rendering, reproducible seeded procgen, three DLC expansions.
  • ChefCopilot (iOS): Swift cooking copilot — scan fridge/pantry to discover recipes and follow step-by-step guidance.
  • ArmyOfSafeguards (LLM safety): Layered safety gating (rules + classifiers + meta-classifier); DeBERTa-v3 + LoRA low-latency inference.
  • pdf-flattener (VS Code ext.): TypeScript extension that flattens PDFs by removing interactive elements.
  • Linkit (Chrome extension): Chrome MV3 extension for LinkedIn auto-connect and bulk skill management.
  • audited-pa: Audited live personal-account track record on IBKR — monthly tear sheets, position-level attribution, redacted statements.
  • resume (Typst): Typst-based resume toolkit with an automated referral-message generator.
  • Smart Handoff (UX Design): Omni-channel lead-gen UX flows in Figma; backend/data collaboration; marketing strategy.

Activities & Competitions

Certificates & Skills

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Skills