Steven Wu

Developing the future

EXPERIENCE

Super.com

Software Engineering Co-op

@ Super.com

Toronto, Canada

May 2025 - Aug 2025

  • Integrated risk assessment check to cash advance product, reducing failed repayments caused by fraudulent users by 94%
  • Engineered bank account balance analysis, improving new user repayments by 19%
  • Constructed new user off-boarding process, increasing removal of high-risk users by 200%
  • Ensured full compliance with financial regulations while developing cash advance product

Python

TypeScript

React

Flask

PostgreSQL

Datadog

Snowflake

Deephaven Data Labs

Software Engineering Co-op

@ Deephaven Data Labs

New York, USA

Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

Sep 2024 - Dec 2024

  • Developed Python package for rapidly calculating JSON tree diffs, with over 4.7k downloads per month on PyPI
  • Re-engineered CI/CD pipeline to parallelize end-to-end tests, reducing runtime by over 75%
  • Built gRPC API endpoints, algorithms, and components capable of efficiently handling billions of data points, used by Fortune 500 companies

Python

TypeScript

React

Redux

Playwright

Java

GitHub Actions

DocTalk

Full-Stack Web Developer Co-op

@ DocTalk

Toronto, Canada

May 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Re-architected messaging platform using websockets, reducing latency by over 93%,
  • Developed responsive forms and pages with Redis and PostgreSQL
  • Migrated web and mobile repositories into a single monorepo, allowing for easier code sharing
  • Implemented Bash and Python scripts to improve developer QOL and automate tasks

TypeScript

React

React Native

Next.js

PostgreSQL

Redis

Turborepo

PROJECTS

MotiSpectra

  • Developed tool to assess listener engagement in online meetings
  • Trained custom convolutional neural networks to analyze attention and emotion

ConUHacks VIII: 2nd

Python

OpenCV

Tensorflow

Keras

Flask

TypeScript

Next.js

React

narratorRL

  • Created mobile app with optical character recognition to perform image-to-speech for the visually impaired
  • Included LLM to summarize ouput, detect language, and find key points

MetHacks: Cohere Challenge 1st

MetHacks: 2nd

JavaScript

React Native

Python

Django

WLP4 Compiler

  • Built compiler from WLP4 (custom subset of C++) to MIPS (RISC machine code)
  • 1st place in bonus optimization challenge with 18% better score than 2nd place

C++

FIRST Robotics

  • Led software team and won Ontario Rookie All-Star Team, progressed to Texas World Championships
  • Developed C++ autonomous robotics code using real-time sensors and motor control

C++

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