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-automationreplacing 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
multiprocessingcut runtime 89%. - Co-authored published T2D drug-target meta-analysis (68 studies); trained XGBoost, SMR, MR² to link variants to drug response.
- Built genomic ETL pipelines for ~100GB multi-omics data; per-sample fan-out via Python
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 allpipeline. - 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
- 12th SAF Investment Research Challenge (07/2025): 3rd place.
- 7th SAF Strategy Case Competition (05/2025): Finalist