Michael Luong

Full Stack Developer at A Figure A Day

Built and launched a production-grade hybrid eCommerce platform (affiliate + drop shipping) with server-side analytics (GA4, Pixel, Clarity) managing 1,000+ SKUs via a unified storefront and React Admin Dashboard. Engineered an automated product ingestion system processing 500–1,000 products/day, leveraging modular provider architecture to normalize heterogeneous data across the eBay and AliExpress data sources, achieving 99.9% uptime.

Automation Engineer at Random History Facts

Designed and operated an automated media platform scaled to 7,500 subscribers and 50,000 monthly views through algorithm-driven content distribution. Engineered an end-to-end Python automation pipeline reducing video production time by ~90%, eliminating manual editing. Implemented a FFmpeg-based rendering engine enabling dynamic composition of audio, subtitles, and visuals with millisecond precision. Integrated OpenAI Whisper and GPT-4 for automatic transcription, script rewriting, and metadata generation, creating an autonomous content pipeline. Implemented multi-channel distribution via WordPress API, converting transcripts to SEO blog posts; built a Tkinter-based UI to monitor pipeline status and trigger workflows.

Mobile Game Developer at QR Ranger

Collaborated with a team of 6 to develop a mobile game where players hunt QR codes in real-world locations. Designed features including QR code scanning, leaderboard, nearby QR code discovery, and user profile tracking. Integrated Firebase as backend for real-time data synchronization.

Full Stack Developer at Figure A Day

Built and launched a production-grade hybrid e-commerce platform (affiliate + dropship) with server-side analytics (GA4, Pixel, Clarity), managing 1,000+ SKUs via a unified storefront and React Admin Dashboard. Implemented automated product ingestion (500–1,000 products/day) using modular provider architecture to normalize heterogeneous data across eBay and AliExpress sources, achieving 99.9% uptime. Created a RAG-based AI shopping assistant with embeddings and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search for semantically-driven product discovery. Implemented a content & social distribution pipeline publishing to Facebook/Instagram via Meta Graph API, and built image-based search with Cloudinary for deduplication. Enabled real-time payments (Stripe/PayPal) with webhook-driven order confirmations. Developed a real-time customer-admin chat (Socket.IO) and a Tkinter-based dashboard for pipeline status.

Mobile Game Developer at QR Ranger (Academic Project)

Collaborated with a team of 6 to develop a mobile game where players hunt QR codes in real-world locations. Key features included QR code scanning, a leaderboard, nearby QR code discovery, and user profile tracking. Backend data synchronization implemented with Firebase for real-time updates.

Data Science Project at Kaggle / GitHub

Car Price Prediction: built a gradient-boosting model achieving a top 16% ranking by MAE on Kaggle.

Data Science Project at Kaggle / GitHub

IMDb Movie Popularity Prediction: designed a random forest classifier to predict movie popularity, achieving 72% accuracy.

Safety Patrol Volunteer at Safe Walk, University of Alberta

Assisted students and staff traveling on campus at night, coordinating routes and equipment with a partner.