Work Experience

Software Engineer — Deloitte Consulting, NY

Crafted strong backends and intuitive frontends integrated into client websites.
Built cloud infrastructure for hosting websites, storing data, and communication to the internet as well as between services.
Communicated closely with clients to analyze their expectations and engineer a solution.
Notable Projects:

Created backend APIs for the frontend application to interface with the relational database
Wrote Terraform scripts to automate the creation and deployment of all AWS resources into the AWS Cloud

July 2022-Present

Education

Purdue University, College of Science — West Lafayette, IN

August 2019-May 2022

GPA: 3.31/4.0

Honors/Awards

Personal Projects

Slay the Spire Mod

Designed a new playable character and unique abilities and cards as a mod in Java for a popular roguelike deckbuilder game called Slay the Spire.
Development of the mod is still in progress.

2020-Present

Population Simulator

Programmed a simulator that would generate a random population of people with different names, ages, relationships, and genetics.
The simulator is currently able to progress one year at a time and update each person with new statistics.
Resources and competitions between people and groups are a future planned implementation

2021-Present

Certifications

Certified Cloud Practioner

Basic understanding of IT services and their uses on AWS Cloud
Knowledge of core AWS services and use cases, billing and pricing models, security concepts, and how cloud impacts your business

October 2022-October 2025

December 2022-December 2025

Skills

Languages: Proficient in Java, C/C++ Python Comfortable with SQL/DBMS, HTML, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript

Tools:MySQL, Google Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Terraform, React, Flask, Django

Xiao, Damien, New York, Software Engineer