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Software engineer with a strong foundation in both Computer Science and Psychology. Driven by a desire to understand how people think, decide, and interact with technology—and to turn those insights into scalable, reliable software. Help people make better decisions—whether through fast, reliable search APIs or systems that enable experimentation and personalization.…

George Gu

Web Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +3

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Software engineer with a strong foundation in both Computer Science and Psychology. Driven by a desire to understand how people think, decide, and interact with technology—and to turn those insights into scalable, reliable software. Help people make better decisions—whether through fast, reliable search APIs or systems that enable experimentation and personalization.…

Available to hire

Software engineer with a strong foundation in both Computer Science and Psychology. Driven by a desire to understand how people think, decide, and interact with technology—and to turn those insights into scalable, reliable software.

Help people make better decisions—whether through fast, reliable search APIs or systems that enable experimentation and personalization.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

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Expert

Expert

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Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

Javanese

Advanced

Work Experience

Software Engineer Intern at Capisoft

July 25, 2025 - November 20, 2025

Built and improved user-facing features with React and TypeScript, focusing on clear UI states and smooth user flows. Maintained and extended backend endpoints using Django REST to support product workflows and data consistency. Implemented authentication and access control with Firebase (GCP) across Web and iOS surfaces. Automated data collection and analysis using Puppeteer, reducing manual effort and improving data processing efficiency. Collaborated with Git, Jira, and CI/CD practices to ship iterative improvements and fixes in a team setting.

Python Engineer at KK World

September 20, 2018 - February 20, 2020

Built a high-throughput web data ingestion pipeline, crawling and decoding 100M+ records into a database. Improved throughput 8x via multi-processing/threading and bottleneck optimization; improved downstream search efficiency by ~60%. Cleaned, structured, and validated raw data to improve reliability and usability for downstream consumers. Collaborated weekly with engineers to test, benchmark, and iterate on performance and stability.

Personal Project at SmartTrip

December 20, 2025 - January 20, 2026

SmartTrip — Decision-Aware Travel Search Engine using FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, React. Built a travel search API that ranks hotels using a decision-aware scoring model based on user preferences (price, comfort, location), rather than simple sorting. Implemented a weighted ranking function that converts human trade-offs into normalized utility scores to produce personalized result ordering. Logged search and click interactions to enable future experimentation, personalization, and ranking optimization.

Personal Project: SmartTrip at Self-initiated

December 20, 2025 - January 20, 2026

SmartTrip — Decision-Aware Travel Search Engine. Built a travel search API that ranks hotels using a decision-aware scoring model based on user preferences (price, comfort, and location). Implemented a weighted ranking function that converts trade-offs into normalized utility scores to produce personalized results. Tech stack included FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, and React.