Desmond Chi

An aspiring software engineer.

About Me

Hi! I am currently an undergraduate junior studying CS @ UC Riverside. My passion for programming began in middle school, when I wanted to learn how to create games. I enjoy tackling algorithms and building software that has impact towards other people. I am dedicated to building my skills to pursue a career in software engineering so that I can apply my passion for programming and innovation to real-world problems.

Experience
Google SWE Intern (Search) | Internship
New York City, NY | June 2024 - September 2024

Spearheaded the development of a user-facing Search feature for food recipe entity cards, resulting in a 5.72% increase in growth with recipe content.

Reduced vertical onboarding time by ~1 week and decreased feature maintenance costs by integrating dynamic refinement chips and automated subtitle generation. Increased user satisfaction by 2%.

Implemented a scalable fulfillment path that retrieves higher-quality metadata.

Played a key role in achieving an increase in overall Search growth and improvement in key impact metrics.

Google STEP Intern (Search) | Internship
Bellevue, WA | June 2023 - September 2023

Developed a feature to recommend categories for creators and social media webpages by utilizing embeddings.

Constructed several Flume pipelines to filter, analyze, and compute the similarity of embeddings and generate clusters.

Optimized a bottom-up clustering algorithm via hyperparameter tuning, which improved the cohesiveness of the clusters and increased cluster coverage by 41% on average.

Utilized C++, parallel data processing (Flume), and machine learning concepts and skills such as embeddings, unsupervised learning, and clustering algorithms.

Google STEP Intern (Cloud Tech Infrastructure) | Internship
Madison, WI | June 2022 - September 2022

Developed a full-stack Cloud Tech Infrastructure dashboard that analyzes RPC latency for a distributed file system proxy service.

Learned and utilized SQL, C++, Object-Oriented Programming, Version Control, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Gained knowledge and experience in the software engineering industry from full-time engineers.

Contact Me

desmonddchi@gmail.com