Overview
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Education
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Robotics Course Projects
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KEN CHEN

Champaign,IL

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineer

Manulife Financial Corporation
Toronto, ON
05.2022 - 07.2024
  • Designed and built a system that manages risks and security findings which improves overall process time by 63%
  • Implemented microservices architectures based on domain driven design patterns
  • Built multiple REST API services using Go and MongoDB
  • Containerized multiple services using Docker and composed deployment scripts
  • Built user dashboard for the application using Javascript and Vue
  • Hosted feedback sessions with internal stakeholders to gather functional requirements

Software Developer

Edkent Media
Toronto, ON
03.2021 - 04.2022
  • Developed applications for international address verifications
  • Built REST APIs and backend infrastructures using Node.js and Express to serve endpoints for address lookups and verifications
  • Implemented micro-services to improve existing infrastructures and saved disk spaces for deployment on AWS EC2 instances by 43%
  • Increased conversion rate and subscription rate by roughly 12% by adding new features to the platform such as geolocation searching
  • Implemented address lookup dashboard in React.js

Full Stack Developer

Autnhive
Toronto, ON
03.2020 - 12.2020
  • Developed server-side application for privatized and secured enterprise communication tool
  • Built REST API, socket events and server-side infrastructures using Node.js, Express and PostgreSQL
  • Integrated dynamically linked C++ libraries to reduce end to end encryption time by roughly 85%
  • Supported DevOps team developing CI/CD pipelines
  • Received about 95% positive feedbacks from clients regarding performance and security

Education

Master of Engineering - Autonomy & Robotics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
01-2025

Bachelor of Applied Science - Computer Engineering

University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

Skills

  • ROS
  • OpenCV
  • C
  • Python
  • Arduino
  • Assembly
  • Python
  • Javascript
  • Golang
  • FPGA

Certification

Steven Mann Award In Wearable Computing - 2019

Dean's Honour List, University of Toronto - Winter, 2019

Dean's Honour List, University of Toronto - Winter, 2016

Accomplishments

Robotics Research Intern

Cyberworks Robotics Inc - Toronto, ON (Summer 2017)

  • Contributed to the design and development of autonomous driving wheelchair that uses SLAM approach
  • Deployed a dual Kinect depth cameras system on the wheelchair and integrated it with existing system to improve loop closure by 27%
  • Implemented C++ programs to aggregate 3D point clouds data from depth cameras using ROS
  • Debugged and tested the behavior of the autonomous driving wheelchair by analyzing 3D point clouds using Gazebo simulator

Robotics Course Projects

Auto Parking System for Autonomous Driving Vehicle

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Champaign, IL (Spring 2025)

  • Developed auto parking spots detection that leveraged fine-tuned YOLO model and OpenCV for autonomous driving vehicle
  • Implemented various transformation to project 2D detected segments to 3D in vehicle frame.
  • Applied OpenCV techniques to make robust detections and provide accurate parking spots coordinates.
  • Integrated detection system with trajectory and motion planning components.

Timeline

Software Engineer

Manulife Financial Corporation
05.2022 - 07.2024

Software Developer

Edkent Media
03.2021 - 04.2022

Full Stack Developer

Autnhive
03.2020 - 12.2020

Bachelor of Applied Science - Computer Engineering

University of Toronto

Master of Engineering - Autonomy & Robotics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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