Career Profile
I am a Software Engineer with a strong background in Golang, Python, C#, and Java, specializing in building high-performance backend systems, cloud solutions, and interactive applications. With expertise in RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and geospatial data processing, I have designed and developed scalable microservices, flight path planning algorithms, and surveillance data management systems. My experience includes working on simulation engines, VR/AR applications, and Unity-based development tools. I have contributed to advanced geospatial data processing for aviation systems, integrating diverse network protocols and high-performance databases like PostgreSQL with spatial indexing. Beyond software engineering, I am passionate about research-driven development in virtual reality, robotics, and interactive gaming experiences, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to push boundaries in autonomous systems and human-computer interaction. You can find my overleaf resume here.
Experiences
- Registration Microservice - Designed and developed a robust registration microservice, enabling seamless management of user and organization entities. Implemented one-to-many relationships, allowing organizations to manage multiple users with different role levels. Utilized Golang with Fiber framework to build a high-performance RESTful API. Implemented JWT token-based authentication and authorization, ensuring secure access to resources with fine-grained scopes. Integrated Keycloak for identity and access management, enabling seamless user registration and authentication workflows.
- Flight Path Planning - Led the development of a project focused on calculating dynamic 3D paths for copter and fixed-wing vehicles, incorporating considerations for different parameters including cruise speed and various elevation references. Utilized including but not limited to RRT/RRT, A within a predefined search volume, while addressing predefined constraints. Implemented robust solutions to ensure safe and efficient navigation in complex environments, enabling autonomous aerial vehicles to adapt to changing conditions seamlessly.
- Surveillance Data Package Manager - Spearheaded the development of an advanced package manager system that orchestrates various highly templatized data agents through gRPC communication, enabling seamless control over data streams before transmission to a centralized data processing agent. Each data agent is adept at retrieving surveillance data via diverse network protocols and unifying them into a cohesive traffic model. By implementing robust communication protocols and efficient data parsing techniques, the system optimizes data management and enhances overall surveillance capabilities.
- Airservices Australia, Flight Information Management System (FIMS) - Pull geospatial data (i.e., airspace, weather, radio tower) from sources such as Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology with HTTPS, SFTP, ArcGIS, etc.; Process geospatial data in the formats of geojson, XML, grib2, CSV; Store geospatial data in Postgres database with spatial indexing; Serve geospatial data via high performant go-fiber RESTful API with more than 80% efficiency.
- HIFI SIM - Spearheaded the development of a centralized simulation management system that orchestrates and manages a collection of simulation backend engines for different use case scenarios. Utilizing modularized Docker microservices, the system offers flexibility in simulation configurations based on request parameters and streams the results via WebSocket to interested parties, such as the 3D Unity client, for immersive visualization. By centralizing simulation resources and leveraging WebSocket technology, the system enhances scalability and efficiency, catering to diverse simulation needs across various domains.
- Designed, implemented and iterated internal Unity mega editor development toolsets improving shorten the original development time over 30\%: for rapid city prototyping used by City design team; screenshots, and metadata generation for over 10k land assets used by NFT team; asset bundles and tile maps generation for over 10k land assets used by Web app team; actively lead the new game IP exploration with mini game demo prototyping and alpha testing cross the team.
Projects
ABACUS - Programmable VR Environments (Since 2019)
- Present a programmable virtual environment that allows users to create and manipulate 3D objects via code while inside virtual reality. Our environment supports the control of 3D transforms, physical, and visual properties. Programming is done by means of a custom visual block-language that is translated into Lua language scripts. We believed that the direction of this project will benefit computer science education in helping students to learn programming and spatial thinking more efficiently.
VR Robotics (2019 - 2022)
- Propose using mobile robots to dynamically recreate physical surfaces around the user, increasing presence and performance. By combining the physical prop and the virtual representation, the user can experience a sense of touch in a VR experience.
Exergame (2019 - 2021)
- Design a research study of utilizing a self-developed exergame as a proof of concept to evaluate the exergame’s potentiality with multiple HCI techniques to motivate people to do more exercise on iOS platform.
Publications
2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
IEEE VR 2025 - 3D Authoring (10 - D)