Hello! My name is

Gina Hong.

I design, research, and code.

I'm a UBC Cognitive Systems student interested in building and designing websites and applications!

About Me.

Hello! I’m Gina, a fourth-year Cognitive Systems student at UBC.

I’m interested in developing practical solutions to everyday problems. I’m constantly learning more about programming and enjoy the challenges that come with it.

When I’m not building and learning, I’m playing my guitar 🎸, designing stickers 🎨, or cooking 🍳!

I am searching for a developer position in 2020 May-August!

Experience.

Analytics Developer @ Samsung

SEP 2019 - APR 2020

Implement a data validation functionality within our various data pipelines using JSON schemas and Python (Python, SQL, JSON schema).
Helping with development and maintenance of our data pipelines by monitoring airflow DAGs and our AWS services (Airflow, AWS Redshift, Python).
Maintaining stability and better UX in our Tableau servers used by internal stake holders. (ex. reconfig authentication, web dev for internally used docs).

Undergrad Teaching Assistant @ UBC

SEP 2017 - JUL 2019

Guide students through a course-long database project where students are tasked with creating an application that utilizes the students’ own database design (CPSC304).
Helped students in weekly 3-hour labs that introduced students to systematic methods of solving hard design problems. (CPSC110)
Give mini-lectures and advise Vantage College students in weekly tutorials (CPSC110)

Research Assistant @ Learningbranch

MAY 2018 - JAN 2019

Tested the automated speech recognition system by compiling a list of similar phonemes and applying this linguistic understanding to test various usage scenarios. (Testing)
Assisted with literature review, prototyping, and testing of the automated soft-skill assessment system. (Research & Prototyping w/ Python)
Analyze and visualize survey data given by clients to identify key features the company would need to integrate. (Data analysis & Python).

UX Designer @ UBC Launchpad

SEP 2017 - MAY 2018

As the iOS team UX designer, I was tasked with creating wireframes and prototypes using various tools such as Sketch, Figma, and AdobeXD. (Sketch, Figma, AdobeXD).
In order to determine our semester-long projects, we analyzed various applications in our domain-of-interest to more clearly identify the direction of our application. (Competitor Analysis)
Two-week sprints and weekly scrum standup meetings helped organize every team member’s task and provided a quick feedback loop during development. (Scrum/Agile process)

Projects.

Web Development

ideaDate

ideaDate is a web application for developers and designers to present their ideas and/or collaborate with others.
Building off of a 'Tinder-esque' swipe-card model, we wanted to build a platform that encourages the collaborative and open-source spirit of hackathons.
I was tasked with setting up the frontend and linking up our project and user creation pages with our API.