About my

Who am I?

* My name is Andrew Chang and I'm currently a senior at the University of California, Irvine pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science. I love building things and learning new technologies and have an interest in software engineering and data infrastructure.

What are my hobbies?

  • Watching basketball πŸ€
  • Gyming and exercise πŸ‹πŸΌπŸƒπŸ»β€β™‚οΈ
  • Dj-ing and listening to music 🎧

Tech Stack

  • Languages: Python, TypeScript, Java, Rust, HTML/CSS, SQL
  • Frameworks: React, Next.js, Django, FastAPI, Node.js, Express
  • Tools: Git, Docker, Linux, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes

About my

  • SoFi-logo
    Software Engineer Intern

    SoFi

    • Architected and built an internal monitoring system for 10+ vendor services, reducing service level agreement breaches by 85%, cutting detection time by 60%, and avoiding over $700K in downtime-related costs

    • Designed a real-time dashboard to visualize vendor uptime and service health, serving 40+ engineers across multiple teams and reducing manual investigation time by 50%

    June 2025 - September 2025

  • Tesla-logo
    Software Engineer Intern

    Tesla

    • Delivered a real-time data streaming system for granular assembly line metrics, reducing defects and cycle time, resulting in over $2M+ in annual cost savings for the Megapack production line

    • Built and deployed 10+ internal APIs to streamline access to production and telemetry data, reducing data retrieval time by 70% and enabling 30+ engineers to build and debug systems more efficiently

    January 2025 - May 2025

  • Ingram Micro-logo
    Software Engineer Intern

    Ingram Micro

    • Instrumented backend services to expose key performance metrics, improving visibility into latency, error rates, and throughput, and reducing incident detection time by 50%

    • Implemented a centralized logging pipeline to aggregate logs across 5+ microservices, reducing log search latency by 70% and accelerating root cause analysis for engineering and support teams

    June 2024 - December 2024

  • Molloi Lab - UC Irvine-logo
    Deep Learning Researcher

    Molloi Lab - UC Irvine

    • Trained a deep learning segmentation model over 1000 contrast enhanced CT angiography images using PyTorch and the MONAI frameworks to identify critical levels of calcium in the coronary arteries

    • Evaluated and optimized multiple loss functions for medical image segmentation, including Dice loss and Hausdorff loss, and developed a GPU-optimized Hausdorff loss function to enhance computational efficiency and model accuracy in coronary artery calcium deposit detection

    April 2024 - June 2024

  • Spurs Sports & Entertainment (NBA)-logo
    Software Engineer Intern

    Spurs Sports & Entertainment (NBA)

    • Transitioned key data pipelines and CI/CD workflows from Jenkins to Airflow, incorporating Docker for consistent execution environments and utilizing Airflow's dynamic DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs) and advanced scheduling for enhanced workflow management

    • Collaborated with frontend teams to develop and test API integration, ensuring seamless communication between FastAPI endpoints and React-based applications, resulting in a 15% increase in user interaction efficiency

    October 2023 - May 2024

  • UC Irvine-logo
    Undergraduate Researcher

    UC Irvine

    • Collaborated with a team to optimize our relational database, implementing Spark's distributed clusters which reduced processing times by 45% and improved large-scale data analytics efficiency by 30%

    • Devised comprehensive unit tests using the PyTest testing framework to validate the performance of PySpark SQL queries leading to a test coverage of 95% and reduction of data inconsistencies

    June 2023 - October 2023

  • WhizKids Computer Center-logo
    Programming Instructor

    WhizKids Computer Center

    • Lectured classes of 3-5 students in topics including Python, Java, front-end web development, PyGame, data structures and algorithms, and machine learning

    • Motivated student interest in computer science through personally developed take home projects such as weather forecasting, quiz/studying, and type racing based web-apps shown by a returning student rate of 90%

    January 2022 - November 2022

  • UC Irvine-logo
    Student @ UC Irvine

    UC Irvine

    • Admitted into UC Irvine in 2020 with an expected graduation date of Winter 2024

    • Currently majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Statistics and also Informatics

    September 2020 - Present