[Kevin Mok] # _

Work Experience

Red Hat

May 2020 — Aug 2021
Cloud/Software Engineer Intern
  • Reduced deployment time by 66% by implementing ability to deploy locally-compiled binaries onto Kubernetes/OpenShift using only command-line.
  • Implemented ability for Kubernetes operator to fetch data from a deployed service and update config with data.
  • Added startup probes to handle starting legacy application containers that require additional startup time.
  • Refactored probes to have default values assigned based on deployed YAML while also fixing reconciliation issues.
  • Automated the promotion and release process as part of the Jenkins release pipeline.
  • Wrote documentation on how to get started with the project to onboard new developers and mentored the incoming intern.

Projects

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Jan. 2022
  • Wrote and installed a custom Linux kernel module in C.
  • Intercepted pre-existing system calls using custom kernel module by sending commands to userspace.
  • Monitored specific process ID's in my system call to intercept their system calls.
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Aug. 2019 — present
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Oct 2021
  • Web app to give rarity rankings to NFT's within minutes of their metadata being revealed and check which are listed (based on rarity and price filters) on the OpenSea marketplace using their API.
  • Reverse engineered the ranking algorithm to match the leading rarity ranking site's rankings (scraped using Selenium) with a discrepancy of <0.25%.
  • Used app to frontrun purchases of top 5% rarity NFT's against competing buyers.
  • Wrote Django (Python) backend to fetch metadata from IPFS, store rarity rankings in PostgreSQL and serve rarity data using GraphQL.
  • Wrote React frontend with hooks to dynamically load rarity data. Styled with Tailwind.

Skills

Kubernetes, JavaScript, React, Python, Go, Bash, Solidity, C, Django, Node.js, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, Linux, Git, Command Line

Education

University of Toronto

2018 — 2023
Computer Science Specialist — 3.84 GPA (CS). Graduated with High Distinction.

References

See my LinkedIn for references from my Red Hat managers/mentee, a startup client and a graduate student mentor.