Welcome to website! I'm Matt, a curious software developer interested in big data, ml, full stack, and social hacking. Currently, I'm based in Vancouver, BC and studying Computer Science @ SFU. I'm a LightHouseLabs Data Science Alumni 🔥 and previously, a full stack developer at BC Children's Digital Lab 😎 and St Paul's Hospital.
In my spare time, you can find me playing video games, trying out new local hot spots, or participating in a hackathon!
Feel free to download my resume, poke around my GitHub, check out my MLH Top 50 profile, or contact me for a chat at wongmatthew357@gmail.com. I'm always happy to meet new people!
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2022-Now // President | Prev. Director of Logistics, Logistics Coordinator, Workshop Host
As President of SFU Surge, my role has evolved dramatically over the past year. I've led the expansion of StormHacks, growing the event to accommodate 300 participants. My responsibilities included strategic meetings with CEOs and CTOs, securing them as sponsors and guest speakers, which significantly enhanced the event's profile. I've also negotiated with numerous restaurants and vendors, achieving favorable pricing on food and merchandise that elevated the overall experience. Additionally, I've been instrumental in orchestrating various aspects of the event, from admissions and external relations to crafting a comprehensive marketing plan. My involvement extended to overseeing website development, ensuring a seamless digital presence that aligns with our vision. Collaborating closely with school authorities, Major League Hacking, and student societies, I've ensured that every facet of the event is synchronized and impactful. My commitment to fostering a thriving tech community continues as I spearhead initiatives like the "Road to StormHacks" program, enhancing learning opportunities through diverse workshops and events. This role has not only deepened my expertise in managing large-scale events but also reinforced my dedication to inspiring and empowering the next generation of tech innovators.
2022-Now // Stack Overflow Student Ambassador
Introduce students to the platform, highlighting its functions and features, fostering a culture of collaborative learning. My goal is to empower students to effectively utilize Stack Overflow for problem-solving and skill development
2023 // Full Stack Software Developer
Developed an internal finance app for St. Paul's Hospital, utilizing Oracle, JS, CSS, and HTML, streamlined the payment and billing process for all hospital departments, resulting in $1.52 million annual cost savings. Completely overhauled an internal disease research database, utilizing Oracle, PL/SQL, JS, HTML, and CSS to design and implement a new user-friendly interface, and integrated cutting-edge research tools. Designed (ERD modelling) and on my own built the functionality to solve a polymorphic association between invoices and the many possible form input types that could be given to a single invoice using PL/SQL, Quick SQL and Oracle
2022-now // Judge, Workshop Host, Mentor, and Convention Speaker
Provide coding and pitching expertise to different hackathons by hosting workshops. Assisted judging teams in evaluating hackathon projects based on effectiveness, originality, feasibility, copmlexity, design thinking/creative processes and presentation. Mentor organizers on how to run a successful hackathon and mentor hackers on how to be successful at a hackathon. Spoke at HackCon X/XI about my experience as a hackathon organizer and how to utilize the MLH platform and sponsors to its fullest potential.
2022-2023 // Full Stack Software Developer
Lead the development of a Tensorflow-PointNet machine learning flutter app to identify head deformations during skeletal development in young infants with a 93% accuracy. Building the frontend and backend for a variety of websites, learn and apply technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React, NodeJS, SQL and Micosoft Azure. Create system architecture to build AI/Machine learning tools and integrating them with mobile and web technologies. Collaborated with the rest of the development team, motion design team, and UI/UX team to create apps that benefit doctors working experience and educate families on various diseases and conditions. Developed infrastructure designed to handle large amounts of requests using NodeJS and ExpressJS.
2022 // Backend Developer Intern
Implementing various API's (ie. Pinterest, Yahoo, Auth0) to be used in an all-in-one advertisement service in python and flask.
2022 // Software Developer Intern
Handled setting up their onboarding website/processes and predicted future produce prices by utilizing a basic time series machine learning model that uses data collected from the USDA API
2022 // Web Developer Intern
Designed and built a Shopify Website for directing customers to the company's services and products.
2019-2022 // Mentor
Help new and existing teams tackle problems with their robot, design and code. Provide insight into problem solving techniques for coding and robot design. Spark curiosity and provide creative solutions to varying problems. Problems can range from how to design and code a robot that can grab and shoot a ball reliably to resolving internal conflicts within the team.
2017 - 2020 // Robotics Instructor and Coach
Collaborate with other instructors to enhance curriculum, implement weekly schedules to improve efficiency. Coordinating teams of 5-10 people to program, design and problem solve
This was my first hackathon project and I'm super proud I won at my first hackathon! Honestly, I had no clue what was going on, but I designed a machine learning model that allows users to predict daily covid cases up to 100 days. This model proved to be a winning project even though my devpost wasnt that nice yet and my presentations weren't anything special. Built at HackTheValley5, winning the DCP Challenge 1st Place prize amoungst 300+ participants.
For one of my last hackathons of the year, I wanted to make a project that I can continue working on into the future, something that can do good in the hands of others. With the help of Mitchell, Matthew (another one, I know) and Jacky, we were able to make SafePulse. SafePulse provides users with opioid addiction relief information, live support and the locations of safe injection sites and free naxolone kits. It also has an emergency response alarm that alerts emergency services of the users status, location and access instructions when an overdose occurs. I handled the design of the app and the implementation of Twilio. Designing such a large app for the first time was kind of scary, but with constructive feedback from teammates and participant input, I think it turned out quite nicely. Built at HawkHacks2022, winning 1st place overall amoungst 350 participants. *Sidenote* It was designed for mobile view and you can login to SafePulse with the credentials - test@email.com SafePulse4
— All-in-one platform that streamlines course planning, schedule building, professor and course reviews
githubfigmaSpearheaded the development team and served as secondary project manager for SFU Nocte. Built the front-end using NextJS, providing a highly responsive user interface, and utilized Framer Motion to implement animations and interactive designs to enhance the user experience. Utilized Flowbite to enable rapid prototyping, and Tailwind for efficient and consistent styling throughout the platform. Integrated authentication and user management features using Auth0 and PassportJS to provide secure access control.
SignTube is a platform to connect the deaf/mute and those who speak. Using your devices camera to talk using ASL, the app will convert it to text for the other person to view. Conversely, you can also use your microphone to record your audio which is converted into text for the other person to read. Built at QHacks2022, winning 3rd place overall and the Leading Learners x QHacks Prize amoungst 300+ participants.
AdventureAddict is a social media app to connect people through stories. It lets you scroll through posts made by other users on the site. Based on the posts you view and like, Adventure Addict recommends new posts tailored to your interests. AdventureAddict also lets you create your own projects with its clean and easy-to-use interface. Built at HackUMBC2021, winning 2nd place overall amoungst 200+ participants.
Diversify came out of the frustration that many have with diversity in the workplace. Diversify connects minority groups with hiring managers to promote diversity and networking. It uses a recommendation system to accurately recommend companies and hirees based on location and job description. Built at BCHacks2022, winning Best Diversity in Tech amoungst 200+ participants.
TellMe is a mobile app for companies' employees designed to bridge the gap between the deaf/mute by making sign language easily readable. Built at ESC Hacks 2022, winning 1st place overall amoungst 150+ participants.
Consult-Aid is a portal designed to streamline the collection of user health data at vaccination centres in BC for Vancouver Coastal Health. Built at ThinkTech 2022, winning 3rd place overall amoungst 200+ participants.
This was one of my most memorable hackathon experiences because I had the opportunity to be flown out to Berkley for their inperson hackathon, CalHacks! GutBuddy is a dietary support app designed to assist individuals in tracking and managing their gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and conditions. It aims to help users better understand their digestive health and identify patterns or triggers that may be contributing to their symptoms. The app allows users to log and track their symptoms, meals, and lifestyle factors, and provides personalized insights and recommendations based on this data using machine learning. GutBuddy also features a symptom diary and medication tracker by using Twilio to get user data. Built at CalHacks2022, winning the Best Twilio API implementation amoungst 2500 participants.
Lecture Leverager was made because of the annoying note taking experience university students have. To make note taking easier and more efficient we made Lecture Leverager, it uses AssemblyAi to transcribe and LexRank to summarize the transcribed text. Built at FallHacks2021, won 1st place overall amoungst 100+ participants.
ZenChat is designed to provide accessible and confidential support for individuals struggling with mental health issues. ZenChat aims to create a user-friendly and accessible platform that offers a variety of features to help individuals manage their mental health on a day-to-day basis by providing tools and outlets while connecting individuals with the resources they may need. Built at ProduHacks.
YouKraine is a platform to connect refugees with those willing to offer support, socially, mentally and/or financially. It also features a map where refugees can find safe shelter and support from relief efforts. Built at YHacks2022, won Audience Favourite with 40 vote amoungst 150+ participants.
Designed to reduce food waste, LeftOverz sprouted from a news article by Global News about the food waste during the pandemic. We narrowed down our problem and decided to focus on tackling food waste from restaurants ~ the number of takeout/delivery orders grow by the day so we wanted to also take advantage of that business model. LeftOverz is where restaurants sell food that would've been thrown out and our users can buy food at a discount, its a win-win! Built at WinHacks2022.
This one hits kinda close to home, the inspiration for this project came from my dad, he's blind and has always required an eye transplant but they're often far and few in between. This problem made we want to build PeerOrgan, a platform to make organ donations more accessible for everyone. People from around the world can learn more about who they're donating their organs to and if they're not a donor yet, can possibly be inspired by the recipients story and become a donor. Built at HackNYU, winning Most Outrageous Hack amoungst 500+ participants.
Cooking's always been difficult, espcially when you're starting out and don't know what to cook with what you've got lying around, the solution I design for this problem is MealMate! MealMate is a cooking buddy that can recommend you recipes based on what ingredients you have on hand. When trying out the website, it loads pretty slowly, don't mind it. Built at nwHacks2021, winning best domain amoungst 200+ participants.
Bankings HAAAAAAAAAAAARD you know it, I know it, EVERYONE knows it. To cut out the call centres, waiting, and whatever else can waste away my day, we designed AvaAssist. AvaAssist is an all in one banking chat bot thats capable to giving loan recommendations and provide feedback on your banking/spending status through twilio. Built at HackWestern8, recieveing an Honorable Mention & DashaAi Runner-up amoungst 300+ participants.
One of my first bigger projects with python, was done as apart of my time at LighthouseLabs. It was meant as a starting point to try out different machine learning algorithms and cleaning techniques. We tried out 10x different models and also realized how OP google colab is vs my computer. Big learning project, much love to Prashanta.
My capstone project at Lighthouse, took me 2 weeks of pain staking data collecting, cleaning, and trial and error. The project predicts the stock market using an RNN LSTM model and it's 68% accurate when predicting AMZ. I wouldn't put any money on it though!😂 Shout out to Henry for putting me on this path of self development, I've been itching to do computer science/software development since highschool, but didn't know where to start.
Found Hugo and realized it was an easy way of making a website. 🔥🔥HUGE shout out to jacky for inspiration and, alan and eric for helping me out with the website!🔥🔥
2022 // MLH Top 50 Hacker of 2022
I was named one of Major League Hacking’s (MLH) Top 50 Hackers in 2022. Out of the 150,000 students who participated in hackathons and community events, my story was one of 50 that was recognized on this list due to my projects and impact on other students in the community.
2020 // BC Championship 2nd Place Finalist
I was awarded 2nd Place Finalist out of 50 teams for my performance during the robot game.
2020 // BC Championship Design Award Recipient
I was awarded the Design Award for my teams thoughtfullness during the robot design process.
2017 // BC Championship 1st Place Inspiration Award Recipient
I was awarded the 1st Place Inspiration Award for my outreach and community service
2017 // BC Championship 1st Place Robot Game Award Recipient
I was awarded the 1st Place Robot Game Award for having the best code and scoring the most amount of points
2016 // BCIT Robot Championship 1st Place
I was awarded the BCIT Robot Championship 1st Place for scoring the most amount of points