Hi, I'm Jonathan Chen
An aspiring software engineer studying at UPenn.

About Me

I’m a fourth-year student at UPenn majoring in CS and Cognitive Science and minoring in Math. I’m an aspiring software engineer who is fascinated by AI and Machine Learning.

I’m originally from New Jersey, and when I’m lucky enough to have free time, you can find me learning how to code with new tech 💻, writing about my experiences ✍️, or rock climbing 🧗‍♂️.

My goal? To make applications—web and mobile—that draw visitors in and have impact in the real world.

Resume

Projects

Spotify Playlist Generator 🎧

Created a playlist generator that applies k-means clustering to a given user's liked songs, grouping tracks together based on audio features collected from Spotify API

Tech Stack: Spotify Web API, Python (Scikit-Learn, Pandas, Spotipy, Seaborn, Plotly)

See Live Source Code

Graph Visualizer 🖥️

Implemented React app that allows users to add nodes and edges to a graph, then run various graph algorithms (e.g. BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, finding global bridges, etc.) on the created graph and view live results

Tech Stack: React, HTML, CSS, Material UI

See Live Source Code

Penn Course Cart 🛒

Developed shopping cart app that allows users to view information about CS courses at Penn, add them to shopping cart, and checkout selected courses with receipt

Tech Stack: React, HTML, CSS, React-Bootstrap

See Live Source Code

Habit Track 📆

Created a habit tracker app that allows users to create, delete, and actively record a number of habits with a game-like interface

Tech Stack: Swift, UIKit

Source Code

Experience

Software Engineering Intern @ Google

May 2022 - August 2022

Google Ad Manager Team: Built and designed signal for setting Topics API transmitted between client and backend servers in C++. Incorporated and tested business use cases for signal with end-to-end integration testing in Python. Documented necessary code changes and communicated results to coworkers on Google Ad Manager team.

New York, New York

Teaching Assistant for PHYS260 @ UPenn

January 2022 - May 2022

Co-teach and grade assignments on modern computational methods in Python for differentiation, integration, data visualization, solving systems of linear and nonlinear equations, and solving differential equations.

Philadelphia, PA

Web and Mobile Development Intern @ The BHW Group

May 2021 - August 2021

Worked on full stack development for real estate web application (texasland.com), implementing front end with NextJS and back end API in Go.

Austin, TX

Web and Mobile Development Intern @ The BHW Group

Teaching Assistant for CIS120 @ UPenn

August 2020 - May 2022

Teach OOP and functional programming fundamentals in Java and OCaml to over 400 students per semester; Lead weekly recitation of up to 25 students to review concepts; Create and update programming assignments

Philadelphia, PA