I am an aspiring software engineer with a strong foundation in programming, mathematics, algorithms, and embedded hardware. I enjoy building practical projects, including autonomous vehicles and event-focused web tools, while continuously developing my technical and problem-solving abilities. I also enjoy mentoring students, organizing hackathons, leading technical workshops, and creating collaborative learning experiences. Through these experiences, I have developed strong communication, leadership, event-management, and teaching skills alongside my software development expertise.

Minglang Chen

I am an aspiring software engineer with a strong foundation in programming, mathematics, algorithms, and embedded hardware. I enjoy building practical projects, including autonomous vehicles and event-focused web tools, while continuously developing my technical and problem-solving abilities. I also enjoy mentoring students, organizing hackathons, leading technical workshops, and creating collaborative learning experiences. Through these experiences, I have developed strong communication, leadership, event-management, and teaching skills alongside my software development expertise.

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I am an aspiring software engineer with a strong foundation in programming, mathematics, algorithms, and embedded hardware. I enjoy building practical projects, including autonomous vehicles and event-focused web tools, while continuously developing my technical and problem-solving abilities.

I also enjoy mentoring students, organizing hackathons, leading technical workshops, and creating collaborative learning experiences. Through these experiences, I have developed strong communication, leadership, event-management, and teaching skills alongside my software development expertise.

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Experience Level

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Work Experience

Full-time Math Mentor (Volunteer) at Learning Buddies Network
October 1, 2025 - May 1, 2026
Taught one-on-one mathematics lessons to an elementary student twice weekly. Prepared lesson plans, participated in post-lesson mentor discussions, communicated regularly with students, parents, coordinators, and mentors, and supported improvement in subtraction, division, multi-step word problems, decimals, area, fractions, and variables.
President at University Hill Secondary School Physineering Club
September 1, 2025 - June 1, 2026
Conducted weekly club meetings, delivered physics and engineering lectures, and coordinated teams participating in competitions including FYKOS, the Kwantlen Science Challenge, and UBC Physics Olympics.
Vice Chair at vsHacks
September 1, 2024 - Present
Co-organized a two-day online hackathon for high-school students with more than 500 participants and over $7,000 in sponsorship funding. Led sponsorship outreach, managed the DevPost registration portal, maintained the event website, delivered a GitHub workshop, developed a Discord bot for registration and tag assignment, served on the judging panel, and hosted a career advising workshop featuring a Microsoft Machine Learning Engineer.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, Co-op at University of Waterloo
September 1, 2026 - April 1, 2031
Access Studies in Mathematics at University of British Columbia
September 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025
High School Diploma at University Hill Secondary School
September 1, 2022 - June 1, 2026

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Education, Non-Profit Organization

Experience Level

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