UC Irvine

The Harker School

Computer Science at UCI

Hive

Software Engineer II

Software Engineer

Drove internal crypto-forward initiative by transitioning internal infrastructure to utilize blockchain technology with Golang, MongoDB, AWS, Solidity, and Bazel.
- Architected blockchain storage for all internal tools with gRPC endpoint that interact with Solidity smart contracts.
- Utilized MongoDB to store wallet private keys after encrypting with AES-GCM block cipher and unique IDs.
- Used Docker, Bazel, and Go files to start and deploy AWS load balancer and Mongo database for service.

Coinbase

Software Engineer Intern

Developed a backend for a new feature in the Mosaic app focused on reducing waste generated by one time use plastics. This feature takes and validates user input and updates their accounts accordingly to reflect their changes and generates data to send to IoT devices to accurately reflect the current state of the machine based on multiple user requests.

99Bridges

Taught over 100 students the fundamentals of Java while leading them to implement multiple programs demonstrated through a GUI.

Teaching Assistant

Selected for a program of 100 students for Adobe’s first ever Sophomore Career Academy
Learned to lead through combining class material with emotional intelligence to succeed in the workplace
Practiced empowering every voice while utilizing numerous skills presented to creatively solve problems

Adobe

Career Academy Cohort

Technical Skills: Project Scheduling, Refactoring Code, Data Structure Implementation and Management, View/Model implementation, GUI implementation, Dynamic User Interaction
https://github.com/chrisgong52/Kittens

Utilized the Flask Python API to dynamically integrate backend logic to interactive frontend display
Created an automated testing suite to allow for multiple integration test files to verify functionality
Generated multiple HTML/CSS files to format the frontend and allow for redirection between pages

Self-employed

Personal Project

Technical Skills: Hashing, Data Structure Management, Code Structuring, Project Scheduling

Created an automated billing system that takes in a company’s data usage for a month as well as the amount reserved to generate a billing sheet for the customer as well as store the month’s data with a hashed file that stores all customers for a given month.

MemVerge

Software Engineering Intern

Skills: Teaching, Course Structuring/Planning, Remote Instruction, Effective Communication

I assisted in teaching the AP Biology and Honors Algebra 1 summer courses while also helping adapt these courses effectively to the virtual learning environment.

Skills: Event Organization, Teaching/Leadership, Robot Design, Public Speaking

I help mentor new robotics teams in Vex Robotics. After competing for eight years, I wanted to both give back to the community and foster Girls in Robotics, so through our partnership with Google and the Girl Powered Initiative with Vex Robotics, I mentor multiple teams through the Girl Scouts organization.

Paradigm Robotics Club

Robotics Mentor

Summer camp assistant, created games that were approved by my supervisor and led numerous activities for the children. Each game is intended to encourage positive traits such as teamwork, responsibility, or leadership. Recognized for teamwork and strong work ethics.

The Harker

Junior Staff

I competed in robotics for eight years. Two of these years I spent competing in FLL (First Lego League), and after winning the regional competition, moved to Vex Robotics for the next six years. Here, I reached the World Championship five out of my six years competing.

Christopher Gong