Preston Young

Preston Young

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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Hi, I'm a Computer Science student at UC Irvine extremely interested in developing web…

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Experience

  • Plaid Graphic

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    San Francisco, California, United States

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    New York, New York, United States

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    San Francisco, California, United States

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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Natick, Massachusetts, United States

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    Torrance, California, United States

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    Irvine, California, United States

Education

  • UC Irvine Graphic

    UC Irvine

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    Activities and Societies: HKN Honors Society, Women in Information and Computer Science (WICS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Intramural Volleyball

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    35+ hours of web development lectures, where I learned and built projects using:
    - HTML
    - CSS
    - JavaScript
    - Bootstrap
    - React
    - Git
    - Node.js + Express.js
    - SQL + PostgreSQL
    - RESTful

Licenses & Certifications

Courses

  • Data Structure Implementation and Analysis

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  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms

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  • Digital Logic Lab/Circuit Design

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  • Discrete Mathematics and Boolean Logic

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  • Discrete-Time Signals and Systems

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  • Hardware Systems and Components

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  • Organization of Digital Computers

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  • Probability and Statistics for Computer Science

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  • Programming in C++

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  • Python with Software Libraries

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Projects

  • Robofriends

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    • Created a responsive front-end web app that displays a set of users with their unique robot profile picture and email
    • Utilized React to build reusable components, such as a search bar that filters out profiles in real time

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  • Friendly Faces

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    • Led group of 3 to develop full-stack web app, allowing users to upload images and detect faces using Clarifai API
    • Efficiently delegated tasks by discerning each member’s strengths, finishing 1 week ahead of projected deadline
    • Leveraged React to design web pages and handled server requests with Express.js
    • Utilized bcrypt library to hash user passwords and securely store in PostgreSQL database

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  • @HelloWorld

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    • Created a Twitter bot that replied to any user who tagged my account using #HelloWorld in a tweet
    • Scanned for tweets every 15 seconds; Utilized Twitter API to parse and retrieve user data as a JSON

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  • Blackjack

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    • Built multiplayer text-based version of Blackjack
    • Practiced iterative development by diligently gathering set of requirements and designing UML class diagrams

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  • Text Editor

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    • Developed text editor with several commands including New Line, Backspace, Undo/Redo, Cursor End
    • Enforced code maintainability by applying fundamentals of memory management and polymorphism

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  • Stock Strategies

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    • Determined buy or sell signals based on investment strategies by analyzing stock data and generated a chart accordingly
    • Utilized Stock API to extract real-time or historical stock data about selected company, including daily high and low prices
    • Retrieved relevant stock information in speeds comparable to other stock websites without needing to make an account

    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Dean's Honors

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    Term GPA of 3.5 or above

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    Term GPA of 3.5 or above

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    Term GPA of 3.5 or above

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    Term GPA of 3.5 or above

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    Term GPA of 3.5 or above

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