NELSON
KANG

Backend & Data Engineering Co-op at Aquanow. Built and own a daily credit-exposure reporting pipeline (PyIceberg, AWS Athena) covered by 31 unit tests, and fixed 5 production bugs in a live regulatory reporting system — restoring reconciliation to 107/107 currencies.

Business Intelligence Co-op at Ericsson Canada. Built 4 ETL pipelines in C# + SQL Server to extract Jira data, developed Power BI dashboards for trouble report visibility, and led a LEGO Mindstorms workshop on image-based sign recognition.

Automated volleyball highlight generator. Users upload game film; YOLOv8-pose extracts player skeletons frame-by-frame, a rule-based classifier scores spikes, serves, and blocks, and FFmpeg re-encodes clips served via presigned Cloudflare R2 URLs. Audio RMS analysis reduces false-positive clips by ~20%.

1st Place, CORTEX BioSciences Track @ Hack the 6ix. A deterministic belief-revision engine (no LLM) that ingests streaming evidence into a knowledge graph. Prompt-injection is blocked structurally — an independent ~90-attack red-team produced zero text-driven mutations.

1st place, Market Beat Competition. Multi-factor portfolio pipeline applying momentum, volatility, correlation, and trend signals (RAAM). Optimized a $1M CAD portfolio across U.S. and Canadian equities — 5.7% return vs. 3.7% benchmark, out of 18 teams.

Neural-network chess engine trained on millions of Stockfish-labeled positions using distributed GPU compute on Modal. Classical alpha-beta search paired with deep neural evaluation for real-time gameplay, balancing search depth with inference latency.

Educational content management platform built with ASP.NET Core. Full user auth with email confirmation, account lockout policies, and strong password enforcement. Notes management, contact forms, and content creation with Entity Framework + SQL Server.

Discord bot managing poker stats and a live leaderboard for a private server. Integrates with Google Sheets for persistent player data and real-time chip tracking.