Edward
Sung

February 2026 — Present

Software Engineer Intern

Varmodel

Built a 3-part video upload pipeline using presigned URLs to DigitalOcean Spaces, enabling direct client uploads and eliminating server-side FFmpeg processing, reducing upload latency by around 40%Contributed to a Django-based backend platform, implementing features across real-time chat (WebSockets via Django Channels), billing (Stripe), and background processing (Celery/Redis)Implemented semantic partner discovery using vector embeddings (OpenAI/Gemini) and Qdrant, improving relevance of search results across the platformDeveloped frontend features in Vue.js, including onboarding and profile flows, and integrated OAuth providers (Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, etc.) for authentication and external integrations

June 2025 — May 2027

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Southern California

June 2023 — May 2025

Software Engineer

FAST Enterprises

Built enforcement modules orchestrating multi-step workflows across Massachusetts state tax systems, integrating validation, rule evaluation, and automated actions over 2M+ records, increasing revenue recovery efficiency by 15\%Stabilized a large-scale production deployment by fixing frontend-backend contract mismatches and unhandled API failure states through schema validation and improved error handling, reducing crash rate from 20% to 5%Designed and implemented an audit tool used by 50+ internal users, reducing average audit time from 60 minutes to 30 minutes per case and lowering clerical errors from 10 to 0 per audit cycleReduced page load time from 10s to 4s across 10K+ daily transactions by analyzing query logs and execution plans, rewriting joins, adding composite indexes on high-cardinality columns, and removing redundant sub-queries

June 2022 — June 2023

Software Developer

Clark County Water Reclamation District

Built the company's first mobile app using React Native and REST APIs that digitized paper-based vehicle checkout workflows, allowing 400+ employees to request and manage on-site transportation in real timeImplemented transactional rollback for a core application by wrapping multi-table updates in a single transaction, reducing failure recovery time from approximately 2 hours to under 10 minutes and eliminating manual data correctionImproved application responsiveness for 100+ active users by identifying inefficient data access patterns and restructuring backend queries to reduce request latency

August 2020 — May 2023

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2025

Computational Image Puzzle Solver

• —Built a computer vision system that reconstructs images from scattered puzzle pieces, supporting 4 rotation orientations and automatic grid inference
• —Optimized solver using beam search (5000 states) with precomputed pairwise compatibility caching across rotations
• —Developed OpenCV pipeline for piece extraction using contour detection, morphological filtering, Sobel gradients, and artifact removal

2023

BlockMo

• —Cryptocurrency web application which allows users to conduct transactions and mine new currency.
• —Utilizes a hashing algorithm designed with encryption best practices.
• —Features 2-step email verification and auto-rotating session tokens.

2023

Load Balancer

• —Load balancer using a round-robin algorithm to distribute requests across a set of backend services with retry support.
• —Performs active health checking and passive recovery for unhealthy backends.

2022

Bulletin

• —Social media application built with a modern full-stack: React, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Apollo.
• —Supports posts, comments, and real-time updates.

2022

VolunteerOne

• —Peer-based mobile app that connects volunteers to community opportunities and events.
• —Matches volunteers to suitable opportunities based on skills, interests, and experience.

2022

Pregnancy Tracker

• —Comprehensive pregnancy tracking app with three user portals — Patient, Doctor, and System Admin.
• —Each portal provides tailored functionality for managing and tracking information throughout the pregnancy journey.

2022

Shell in Go

• —A simple Unix shell for macOS built from scratch in Go.