Vincent Chou
Madison,WI
Summary
Skilled student with expertise in optimizing cloud infrastructure and enhancing Azure security. Proven ability to develop software solutions and automate processes for improved efficiency. Dedicated to leveraging technical skills to deliver impactful solutions.
Overview
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1
Certification
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year of professional experience
Work History
IT Analyst - Network & Cloud Engineering
Alliant Energy
Madison, WI
05.2026 - Current
- Designed and implemented multi-region proof-of-concepts for Azure compute and storage within Terraform, enhancing disaster recovery resilience across hundreds of resources in $3.1 million hosting transformation project.
- Improved security in Azure infrastructure by eliminating open access in 75+ state files through Terraform module modifications for IP restrictions and audit logging within a version-controlled development workflow.
- Automated PowerShell processes and created cross-team documentation for internal voice systems, F5 load balancer diagnostics, and Webex workflows, reducing network engineering team's support burden by 40 to 60 tickets weekly.
- Streamlined compliance processes by developing multi-agent Copilot workflow, unifying four separate regulatory sources into a single source.
Quality Engineer - Intern
Accenture
Singapore
07.2025 - 08.2025
- Delivered technical support and QA for Accenture's National Billing System deployment within SAP, resolving issues for 50+ end users across 4 departments within a live healthcare environment
- Improved application release quality by identifying and reporting 30+ software bugs, monitoring real-time performance and latency across system modules, and escalating findings to quality engineering teams
Education
Bachelor's - Computer Science, Data Science, Music Performance (Violin)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI05-2028
High School Degree -
Waunakee Community High School
Waunakee, WI05-2024
Skills
- Terraform and Azure cloud services
- Cloud network architecture
- Network security
- Python and R development
- Git and version control
- Linux OS administration
- HTML and CSS
- Java, C, and Julia programming
- IT infrastructure
Projects
PyTorch Image Classifier
Developed and trained a feed forward neural network system on the image classification of the Fashion-MNIST dataset to >80% accuracy.
Implemented custom DataLoaders, training/evaluation pipelines, and top-k label prediction utilities
Certification
- Python Institute Certified Entry-Level Programmer
Affiliations
- University Symphony Orchestra (2024 - Present)
- WiscoHumanoids Robotics Club - ROS/Vision Team Member (2025 - Present)
Timeline
IT Analyst - Network & Cloud Engineering
Alliant Energy
05.2026 - Current
Quality Engineer - Intern
Accenture
07.2025 - 08.2025
Bachelor's - Computer Science, Data Science, Music Performance (Violin)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
High School Degree -
Waunakee Community High School