**Alan Zhao**
alan.zhao778@gmail.com | (814) 880-2489 | Philadelphia, PA
LinkedIn: [Your LinkedIn URL]

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### **WORK EXPERIENCE**

**ForceBeyond, Software Engineer** (Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL)
New Castle, DE | 04/2021 – Present
- Developed a Python web crawler to automate data scraping from a commercial data cloud, gathering 20M+ potential customer records and increasing email campaign conversion by 20%.
- Designed an e-commerce site using Spring Boot, React.js, Bootstrap, REST API, and MongoDB to migrate the company’s pet product business from Amazon to a proprietary platform.
- Created ER diagrams and built MySQL database schemas with indexing, reducing query overhead.
- Integrated Hibernate with Spring Boot for ORM to automate table creation/updates.
- Implemented a 32GB Redis cluster with LRU cache, reducing database overhead by 5% and improving page load time by 20%.
- Built secure REST APIs with Spring Boot, MySQL, Spring Security, and JWT.
- Developed a React Native mobile app for iOS and Android.
- Created a Chrome extension (JavaScript/CSS/HTML) to export scraped data to Excel with one click.
- Built a CRM system on WordPress using React.js, Express.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.

**Living Hope International, Software Engineer** (JavaScript, NoSQL)
Fort Washington, PA | 08/2020 – 02/2021
- Developed a customer portal using MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js), digitizing adoption processes and cutting processing time by 80%.
- Designed a React Native mobile app with UX prototyping in Axure RP.

**Neusoft, Software Engineer Intern** (Python, JavaScript)
Shenyang, China | 06/2019 – 08/2019
- Built a Django backend system for customer relationship management.
- Implemented a JavaScript gateway checker to filter unauthorized IP addresses.

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### **PROJECTS**

**Student Course Management System** | 03/2022 – 05/2022
- Developed a system for course registration, content viewing, and assignment submission using Spring Boot (backend) and SQLite.
- Implemented topological sorting to validate course prerequisites.
- Built frontend APIs with Flask and designed web pages using HTML/CSS.

**HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Validator** | 01/2022 – 02/2022
- Created a Java-based web validator to filter malicious URLs and retrieve contents.
- Scanned HLS files, verified records, and handled content exceptions.

**Fake News Detection Model** | 10/2021 – 11/2021
- Trained a Python ML model (semi-supervised learning) to identify fake social media news, achieving 96.2% accuracy.
- Preprocessed/visualized 45K+ articles using pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn.

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### **TECHNICAL SKILLS**
- **Languages**: Java, JavaScript, Python, HTML5, CSS, SQL, Bash/Shell
- **Frameworks**: Spring Boot, Django, Node.js, React Native, Flask, React.js, Express.js, Angular, Bootstrap
- **Databases**: MySQL, SQLite, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Hibernate, Redis, Amazon S3
- **ML/Data**: scikit-learn, semi-supervised learning, pandas, NumPy
- **Tools**: Git, Docker, VS Code, Postman, PyCharm, Jupyter, Anaconda, Axure RP

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### **EDUCATION**
**The Pennsylvania State University**
- Master of Software Engineering | 08/2021 – 12/2022
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | 08/2016 – 05/2020

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