David Chen

Software developer studying CS + Finance @ UWaterloo.

Experience

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 full stack software engineer @ GWL, building tools for 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

Codex CLI, extended with TypeScript mods. A mod host that adds new commands, tools, context, and screens while keeping your Codex settings, sign-in, and sessions. Ships with a collection of mods for things like status lines, plan panels, and idle compaction.

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.

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.

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.

Music

Loaded: Hours In Silence, Drake and 21 Savage