Hello, I'm Nik!

I'm Taiwanese American, grew up in Beijing, and now I'm a junior Computer Science student at Fordham. I'm a builder who loves turning ideas into real, working products, and I spend a lot of my time hacking on side projects, competing in hackathons, and experimenting with new tools and technologies.
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Full Stack Engineer Intern

Habits Inc.

Feb 2025 – Apr 2025

Remote

Contributed to building and refining an internal admin dashboard, helping the business and sales teams access key client data and manage accounts more effectively, while collaborating in an Agile Scrum environment.

Key Achievements:
  • Improved operational efficiency by developing a professional, user-friendly admin dashboard
  • Reduced data fetch latency by ~57% (from ~700ms to ~300ms) via pagination, optimized queries, and API tuning
  • Designed and implemented secure authentication and session management using JWT and HTTP-only cookies
  • Collaborated in Agile Scrum with sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and Jira/GitHub tracking
React.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, JWT