David Chen

CS + Finance @ UWaterloo.

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Some things I've done

interned at Sequoia-backed startup @ Ise AI as a Member of Technical Staff Intern, building marketing automations that supported ad campaigns for brands including KATSEYE.

interned as a logistics operations intern @ GWL, coordinating multiple clients across B2B freight and drayage.

building a logistics startup with a Meta SWE focused on OCR. On the back burner right now.

built projects for my high school, including payment credit software processing $14.8K/yr across more than 5.6k transactions and 1k users.

Projects

Made to solve payment issues at our school's yearly charity event. It reduced fraud and made money trails easier to audit during the event. $14.8K processed every year across 5,600+ transactions and 1,000+ users.

Fraser Grads '26

A fun project to learn Go, middleware, and storage buckets. Collected 300+ submissions.

Doceo

2nd @ Eureka Hacks ’26

A piano coach that turns a performance video into score alignment, posture checks, and practice feedback.

Penny

2nd @ JamHacks 10, GenAI

Semi-autonomous pentesting with abliterated models running in isolated sandboxes and deterministic signals, then handing ranked fixes to coding agents.

Dhen

Learnt Fabric + Kotlin through 282 commits over two months for a potential internship at Moonsworth (Lunar Client) only to get ghosted </3.

Thoughts

Nothing published yet.