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Jacqueline Chew

Software Engineer

About Me

Computer Science graduate with University Honors Cum Laude from University of California Santa Cruz.
I am passionate about web development and software engineering and am eager to learn and improve. I am seeking a full-time Software Engineer or IT Specialist position that will allow me to collaborate with experienced professionals and acquire the essential skills and qualities to develop a successful career.

Projects

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MyPantry

Web application helping connect food-insecure people with nearby no cost food resources through fostering a community around the sharing of food. My team and I used MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js as our core technology stack. As a front-end developer, I built major web pages like our pantry dashboard and pantry cards in React.js, Javascript, CSS, and HTML. This project was a part of joint collaboration with UCSC's IDEASS Lab.

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A Conflict of Heart: Game Incorporating Artificial Intelligence

Strategic interactive storytelling game incorporating machine learning. Fight with an AI rival over a shared dynamic love interest! Built using Python and the RenPy game engine.

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United States Coronavirus Cases Prediction

ML model forecasting the number of positive Covid-19 cases using a Recurrent Neural Network utilizing TensorFlow, Keras, and Python. Utilized Covid data spanning multiple years and experimented with multiple hyper-parameters to train a RNN model, with graphs comparing the model's prediction and the actual daily cumulative case numbers.

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Web Data Courier

Python program to request and download web objects from any public web server with output matching the curl command line tool. Implemented multiple program interpretations of HTTP Responses based on retrieval results, largely through the use of HTTP and TCP/IP protocols.

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Work Experience

Educator - Right At School (2024 - 2025)

Applied strong organizational and management skills to maintain a safe, focused, and productive classroom environment.
Organized and maintained detailed documentation of attendance, incidents, and observations.
Communicated effectively with parents, colleagues, students, and school personnel; fostering strong relationships and building trust across diverse stakeholders.

Academic Mentor and Tutor - The Girls’ Middle School

Provided tailored support to students, ensuring individual academic and social needs were met with a high degree of professionalism, while pursuing my Master’s study.
Leveraged strong organizational skills to manage student schedules and academic plans, maintaining effective communication with faculty and staff.
Demonstrated leadership in guiding students through complex subjects, ensuring policies and procedures were followed while delivering exceptional assistance and resolving concerns.

Layout Designer - Mission San Jose High School (2016 - 2018)

Created appealing and thematic layouts for two 100-page books using Adobe InDesign.
Main person in charge of delivering a major section containing 2000+ photographs of students, teachers, and staff.
Delivered quality pages to our publishing company to achieve a final printed product.