Jason Zheng

Software Engineer, Studying CS @ UBC

About

My objective is to build innovative, reliable systems that can create real-world impact. My current interests include low-level design, specifically improving memory abstractions to better optimize performance in data centre workloads.

Experience

Project Software Developer

Sep 2025 - Present
UBC LFS • Vancouver

Working part-time on a full-stack external Canvas app, built with Django, to save over 10 hours per week for instructors

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2025 - Aug 2025
NETINT Technologies • Burnaby

Worked on developing the firmware/software stack for NETINT’s flagship Quadra chip, a custom ASIC video transcoding accelerator.

Projects

Threadsense AI

Sep 2025 - Present

Developing a chrome extension with UBC Launchpad to easily browse and triage Piazza forums. Using a custom RAG vector database for model context.

Post-Trade Dashboard

June 2025 - Present

Developing a post-trade dashboard to graph returns and visualize portfolio re-balancing based on quant views for UBC Trading Group. Black-Litterman Model on backend to optimize portfolio.

SpeakFast

Oct 2025

Developed an interactive English-speaking practice platform for Storm Hacks 2025. Used React + Expo to create a native Android app.

Clear My Fridge

Jan 2025

Developed a mobile app for nwHacks 2025 to leverage fine-tuned LLMs to clear your fridge. Fine-tuned 2 ChatGPT LLMs to reject invalid ingredients and generate recipes, using curated training data.

UBC Envision Website

2024

Updated and modernized the UBC envision website. Used AstroJS.

Contact

Feel free to reach out to me via email or social media.

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