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chore: anonymize default resume
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fix: add descriptor for mock award
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% HEADING SECTION STARTS HERE
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
\textbf{\large{Kenneth Gao}} $|$ {\href{mailto:hello@kenf.dev}{hello@kenf.dev}} $|$ {\href{www.kenf.dev}{\underline{www.kenf.dev}}} & \textbf{Location:} Singapore \\
\href{https://linkedin.com/in/thisiskenf/}{\underline{linkedin.com/in/thisiskenf}} $|$ {\href{https://github.com/duckyfuz}{\underline{github.com/duckyfuz}}} $|$ {+65 88844154} & \textbf{}
\textbf{\large{[YOUR NAME]}} $|$ {\href{mailto:your.email@example.com}{your.email@example.com}} $|$ {\href{https://yourwebsite.com}{\underline{yourwebsite.com}}} & \textbf{Location:} [City, Country] \\
\href{https://linkedin.com/in/yourusername/}{\underline{linkedin.com/in/yourusername}} $|$ {\href{https://github.com/yourusername}{\underline{github.com/yourusername}}} $|$ {[Phone Number]} & \textbf{}
\end{tabular*}
% END OF SECTION %

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\section{EDUCATION}
\resumeSubHeadingListStart

\resumeSubheading{\textbf{National University of Singapore}}{Expected Grad: May 2027}
\resumeDescription{B.Eng Computer Engineering (E-Scholars Programme), IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) $|$ 4.96/5.0 GPA}
\resumeDescription{Coursework: CS5250 Advanced Operating Systems, CS3211 Concurrent Programming, EE4204 Computer Networks}

% \resumeSubheading{\textbf{Hwa Chong Institution}}{2015 - 2021}
% \resumeDescription{GCE A-Levels (PCME with H3 Physics) $|$ 90 RP with H3 Distinction}
\resumeSubheading{\textbf{[University Name]}}{[Graduation Date]}
\resumeDescription{[Degree Name] $|$ [GPA/Honors]}
\resumeDescription{Relevant Coursework: [Course 1], [Course 2], [Course 3]}

\resumeSubHeadingListEnd
% END OF SECTION %
Expand All @@ -33,61 +30,19 @@ \section{EDUCATION}
\section{EXPERIENCE}
\resumeSubHeadingListStart

\resumeSubheading{\textbf{Software Engineering Intern @ \textit{Open Government Products}}}{Sep 2025 - Feb 2026}
% \resumeDescription{OGP builds technology for the public good, solving problems for citizens and public officers}
\resumeItemListStart
\resumeItem{Architected a unified ECS job runner for background tasks, improving system reliability and decoupling operations}
\resumeItem{Enhanced job observability via Datadog APM and structured state tracking for traceability and idempotent retries}
\resumeItem{Designed a fault-tolerant archival pipeline for offloading bloated tables using AWS EventBridge, resulting in a 40\% increase in query speed by mitigating database contentions and deadlocks}
\resumeItem{Engineered a low-memory report aggregation service by streaming data between S3 buckets, enabling efficient large-scale data exports and reducing download latency from over 300s to under 2s}
\resumeItem{Integrated new ACL framework to decouple authorization from validation, resolving critical VAPT security findings}
\resumeItem{Optimized middleware to eliminate redundant database queries, resulting in latency improvements of up to 20\%}
\resumeItem{Introduced LocalStack for infrastructure mocking to replace flaky stubs with deterministic, reproducible test suites}
\resumeItemListEnd

\resumeSubheading{\textbf{Software Engineering Intern @ \textit{Binance}}}{May 2025 - Aug 2025}
% \resumeDescription{Binance empowers users to trade, invest, and manage cryptocurrencies seamlessly and securely on a global scale}
\resumeItemListStart
\resumeItem{Engineered a MongoDB caching layer for 3rd-party APIs calls, reducing average data retrieval latency by 50\%}
\resumeItem{Prototyped and benchmarked token bucket and sliding window rate limiter implementations to protect public APIs}
\resumeItem{Designed intuitive, action-centric RPC endpoints to abstract underlying systems, reducing integration complexity}
% \resumeItem{Developed a MFA key management extension, accelerating development workflow and reducing OTP retrieval time}
\resumeItemListEnd

\resumeSubheading{\textbf{Founding Software Engineer @ \textit{Pallo (formerly Check, Iterative W25)}}}{Feb 2025 - May 2025}
% \resumeDescription{Pallo offers an AI tutoring platform that enhances student performance with personalized, curriculum-aligned learning}
\resumeSubheading{\textbf{[Job Title] @ \textit{[Company Name]}}}{[Start Date] - [End Date]}
\resumeItemListStart
\resumeItem{Engineered and shipped 5+ novel features, driving a 40\% surge in 30-day user retention and engagement}
\resumeItem{Optimized daily pg\_cron batch jobs to process 10,000+ student session results, reducing ingestion lag from 2+ hours to 30+ minutes and enabling near-real-time personalized learning recommendations}
\resumeItem{Implemented client-side caching and lazy loading, reducing load times by over 80\% to improve user experience}
\resumeItem{[Key achievement or responsibility using strong action verbs]}
\resumeItem{[Quantifiable impact of your work (e.g., improved performance by X\%)]}
\resumeItem{[Tools or technologies used to solve a specific problem]}
\resumeItemListEnd

\resumeSubheading{\textbf{Software Engineering Intern @ \textit{London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)}}}{Jun 2024 - Dec 2024}
% \resumeDescription{LSEG Labs addresses challenges in financial markets by assessing climate risks and simplifying ESG disclosure}
\resumeSubheading{\textbf{[Previous Job Title] @ \textit{[Previous Company]}}}{[Start Date] - [End Date]}
\resumeItemListStart
\resumeItem{Utilized Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to provision micro-services for a data ingestion pipeline, reducing provisioning times by 90\% and maintaining idempotency across multiple development and test environments}
\resumeItem{Designed and deployed infrastructure using AWS SNS for efficient Pub/Sub data-sharing between micro-services}
\resumeItem{Led development of replay feature with Athena for event-driven architecture, accelerating disaster recovery by 80\%}
\resumeItem{Built CRUD module for hierarchical data access permissions using composite keys in AWS DynamoDB (NoSQL)}
\resumeItem{Prototyped WASM SQLite client-side query engine on top of a DynamoDB backend, enabling complex ad-hoc analytics without additional backend endpoints and reducing API call volume by 50\%}
\resumeItem{[Description of a project you led or contributed significantly to]}
\resumeItem{[How you collaborated with cross-functional teams]}
\resumeItem{[Technical challenges overcome during this tenure]}
\resumeItemListEnd

% \resumeSubheading{\textbf{Software Engineering Intern @ \textit{NodeFlair - SEA Tech Career Platform}}}{Jan 2024 - Jun 2024}
% % \resumeDescription{NodeFlair connects tech talents with job opportunities, optimizing the recruitment process for millions in SEA}
% \resumeItemListStart
% \resumeItem{Enhanced and optimized the existing Ruby on Rails API to support large-scale, high-availability services and boost site performance and scalability for over 400,000 monthly users}
% % \resumeItem{Maintained and upgraded functionalities of a Plasmo browser extension, facilitating smoother access to AI tools}
% \resumeItem{Leveraged parallel integration and e2e testing to achieve a 50\% reduction in Continuous Integration (CI) test time}
% \resumeItem{Set up Docker images for development to mimic production environment, reducing on-boarding time by over 80\%}
% \resumeItemListEnd

% \resumeSubheading{\textbf{Software Engineering / ML Intern @ \textit{Home Team S\&T Agency (HTX)}}}{Nov 2023 - Jan 2024}
% % \resumeDescription{xData builds data and AI products that enhances the Home Team's capabilities in internal and mission-based operations}
% \resumeItemListStart
% \resumeItem{Utilised GenAI for the construction of knowledge graphs from over 40,000 pages of unstructured legal documents}
% \resumeItem{Implemented multi-agent LLMs for question answering (QA), for a 15\% increase in accuracy in data-analysis tasks}
% \resumeItem{Integrated knowledge graphs and vector databases to enhance multi-hop QA performance during retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), resulting in a 30\% increase in evaluation scores and improved context precision}
% \resumeItemListEnd

\resumeSubHeadingListEnd
% END OF SECTION %
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\section{PROJECTS}
\resumeSubHeadingListStart

\resumeSubheading{\textbf{Lightweight Bounds Checking for C/C++} $|$ \href{https://github.com/duckyfuz/llvm-project/pull/1}{\underline{LLVM instrumentation \& runtime}}}{Jan 2026 - Present}
\resumeItemListStart
\resumeItem{Developed a low-overhead bounds-checking tool for LLVM 23 using custom C++ passes to detect out-of-bounds memory accesses, based on \href{https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~gregory/papers/cc16lowfatptrs.pdf}{\underline{CC'16 (Duck \& Yap)}}'s methodology}
\resumeItem{Estimating a restricted heap allocation overhead of 11\% (compared to ASan's 146\%), while aiming for 13\% faster memory access times and a leaner physical memory (RSS) footprint}
\resumeItemListEnd

\resumeSubheading{\textbf{Proxmox VE Homelab} $|$ repurposed laptops running LXCs and VMs}{Feb 2024 - Present}
\resumeSubheading{\textbf{[Project Name]} $|$ \href{https://github.com/yourusername/project}{\underline{GitHub Link}}}{[Date]}
\resumeItemListStart
\resumeItem{Implemented HA for 2-node Proxmox cluster using QDevice for quorum and ZFS replication for data redundancy}
\resumeItem{Hardened cluster security by deploying Tailscale as a Zero Trust Network (ZTN) overlay, eliminating public-facing ports and enforcing device-level authentication for all peer-to-peer connections}
\resumeItem{Configured a reverse proxy on a DigitalOcean droplet to handle SSL termination, optimizing network performance}
\resumeItem{Automated off-site backups to Backblaze B2 using systemd timers and rsync, with status updates on Telegram}
% \resumeItem{Utilised as a cloud compute platform for self-hosting services, enabling cost-effective testing and experimentation}
\resumeItem{[High-level overview of the project and its purpose]}
\resumeItem{[Technical details: languages, frameworks, and architecture patterns used]}
\resumeItem{[Key features implemented and any notable user metrics]}
\resumeItemListEnd

\resumeSubheading{\textbf{(In)secure File Service} $|$ simple file sharing service for public use - \href{http://ifs.kenf.dev/}{\underline{ifs.kenf.dev}}}{Sep 2024 - Present}
\resumeSubheading{\textbf{[Another Project]} $|$ [Brief Description]}{[Date]}
\resumeItemListStart
\resumeItem{Designed a serverless file sharing service using AWS Lambda, CloudFront, and S3, managed with Terraform}
\resumeItem{Adopted by 50+ users for sending files to public machines, eliminating the need for logins on untrusted devices}
\resumeItem{[Overview of the problem this project solves]}
\resumeItem{[Implementation details and technologies employed]}
\resumeItem{[Impact or learning outcomes from the project]}
\resumeItemListEnd

\resumeSubHeadingListEnd
% END OF SECTION %


% AWARDS SECTION STARTS HERE
% \section{AWARDS}
% \resumeSubHeadingListStart
% \resumeProjectHeading{\textbf{NUS Hack\&Roll `25} - \emph{Top 8} $|$ \textbf{NUS-ISE Micron BACC `24} - \emph{2nd Runner-up} $|$ \textbf{Ground Zero `24} - \emph{Top 10}}{}
% \resumeProjectHeading{\textbf{SCS Splash Awards `23} - \emph{1st} $|$ \textbf{SUTD WhatTheHack `23} - \emph{1st} $|$ \textbf{HTX HacX! `23} - \emph{3rd} $|$ \textbf{CloudHacks `23} - \emph{1st}}{}
% \resumeSubHeadingListEnd
\section{AWARDS}
\resumeSubHeadingListStart
\resumeProjectHeading{\textbf{[Award Name]} - \emph{[Placement/Rank]} $|$ \textbf{[Competition Name]} - \emph{[Result]}}{[Year]}
\resumeProjectHeading{\textbf{[Scholarship Name]} - \emph{[Status]}}{[Year]}
\resumeSubHeadingListEnd
% END OF SECTION %


% TECHNICAL SKILLS SECTION STARTS HERE
\section{TECHNICAL SKILLS}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=0.15in, label={}]\small{\item{
\textbf{Languages: }{C, C++, Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript} \\
\textbf{Technologies: }{React, Nestjs, FastAPI, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Proxmox, PostgresDB, Redis} \\
% \textbf{Frameworks: }{React, React Native, Plasmo, NestJS, FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot} \\
% \textbf{Tooling \& Cloud: }{Docker, AWS, GCP, Datadog, Firebase, Supabase, Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Ansible, Proxmox} \\
% \textbf{Databases: }{SQLite, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Neo4j (Cypher), Redis, Elasticsearch} \\
\textbf{Languages: }{[Language 1, Language 2, Language 3]} \\
\textbf{Technologies: }{[Tech 1, Tech 2, Tech 3]} \\
}}
\end{itemize}
% END OF SECTION %
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