Dalin Huang

(647) 927-2292 | dhuan023@gmail.com

LinkedIn | Old Portfolio Site | GitHub (Personal)

Education

BSc: Specialization in Computer Science; Minor in Economics

University of Ottawa, ON | 2009 - 2014

Skills & Abilities

Front-End

React, Tailwind, Chakra UI, Typescript, JS/HTML5/CSS3

Back-End

Nextjs, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl

Cloud

GCP, Firebase, Vercel, Netlify, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, ELB, Lambda), TenCent Cloud

Data

Firebase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

Frameworks

Next.js, Remix, Ruby on Rails, Django, Flask, Vue.js, Express, Backbone.js, CodeIgniter

Languages

Fluent in English, Native in Mandarin

Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Developer

Real Simple Labs| Dec 2023 – Present

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Senior Product Developer

Orium.com | May 2022 – Dec 2023

Building high-performance, fully accessible e-commerce starter kit using Typescript, Next.js, and React.
Developed and maintained NPM packages for project teams, including tools, hooks, services, integrations, utils, CLI, and UI components.
Collaborated with external partners to provide feedback and suggestions on headless API and services.
Mentored and managed developers during special projects.
Researched and experimented with open-source projects and new technologies.

Co-Founder & Developer

HiNature Ltd | Jun 2019 – Apr 2022

Co-founded eco-friendly cosmetics company with a focus on microbiome-friendly products.
Developed a WeChat scanner app that analyzes 35,000 ingredients with 95% accuracy.
Collaborated with marketing teams to promote products both online and offline.
Built and trained a small IT admin team in China.
Transitioned to a part-time role in 2022.

Developer

Shopify | May 2019 – Feb 2020

Shopify Money/Capital team.
Collaborated closely with project managers to contribute to the design and implementation of new projects, leveraging strong programming skills and technical expertise to develop high-quality and reliable software solutions.
Engaged in pair programming with team members, fostering a collaborative and supportive team environment and actively contributing to code review and feedback.
Successfully refactored the capital offer decision tree, which generated a significant number of loan offers for eligible shops every day. The refactoring significantly improved the decision tree's efficiency, making it more convenient to run, update, and test, resulting in streamlined development processes and improved developer productivity for the Capital team.

Full Stack Developer

Combyne Ag (Formerly FarmLead) | Feb 2017 – May 2019

Designed, built, and maintained backend servers (Python API server, MySQL Database).
Developed two admin systems using PHP7/MySQL + JS/HTML5/CSS3 and Node.js/Express + Vue.js.
Learned Salesforce in one month and integrated it into the company's systems.
Utilized AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ELB, and Lambda.

Software Application Developer

i-sight.com | Mar 2016 – Feb 2017

Worked as a full-stack developer using Backbone.js, Node.js, Seneca.js, PostgreSQL.
Served as lead/core developer for three major projects.
Utilized technologies such as Node.js, Backbone.js, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Elasticsearch, Git, and Redis.

Web Developer

Events.com | Mar 2015 – Mar 2016

Worked as a full-stack developer (LAMP) in the Events.com Ottawa office.
Built and maintained online event registration services.
Utilized technologies including PHP5, JavaScript, Perl, MySQL, CodeIgniter, Angularjs, and Bootstrap3.

Other Project Experience

PayPaw (A payment service for Bytom Blockchain)

Jul 2019 – 2021

Competed with over 50 teams to win 1st place in a dev challenge.
Built a Node.js server (Payment logic, Public API, and Auth API) and website front end.
Configured AWS services including EC2, RDS, ELB, and Route 53.
Collaborated with a teammate who developed a Go Server for handling on-chain transactions.
Demo video on YouTube

Mining Software Optimization

2020

Invited to optimize a mining company's GPU mining software, written in C++.
Improved overall efficiency by 30% through precalculating work and caching results for seed groups.

BytomDice (A cryptocurrency betting site for Bytom Blockchain)

Jan 2019 – 2020

Developed a cryptocurrency on-chain betting site with no registration required.
Built the backend, frontend, and UI of the site, while a partner worked on RPC calls and handled on-chain transactions.
Reached 1,000 daily active users at peak, but the service was sunsetted after two years due to lack of growth and high cost.
GitHub repository