Brian Tieu

Software Engineer

Google · Google Cloud

• Google Compute Engine (GCE) Control Plane: Modernization
• Google Compute Engine (GCE) Control Plane: Disaster Recovery
• Google Compute Engine (GCE) API Platform: Security & Governance

• Java
• BUILD
• Protocol Buffers

Software Engineer Intern

Google · Google Cloud

• Exposed and quantified wasted energy across Google Cloud’s global fleet of data centers by developing a Java service to collect energy measurements and calculate “stranded power”—power that is reserved for use, but is ultimately unused—for every cluster of breadboards
• Allowed effortless visualization of the impact of stranded power by building a dashboard to display daily metrics and long-term trends
• Enabled efficient storage and lookup of historical data snapshots by writing a custom Spanner database schema and read/write functions
• Reduced service runtime by over 500% by using concurrent programming and batching to streamline collection of large amounts of data

• Java
• Spanner
• SQL
• BUILD
• Protocol Buffers
• gRPC

Software Engineer Intern

Microsoft · Garage / Microsoft Teams

• Enabled live video streaming from Microsoft Teams to four third-party platforms by developing four Teams meeting extensions in React
• Built features to start/stop streaming, generate and access livestream links, and securely authenticate users, using third-party REST APIs
• Created a robust user experience by designing high-fidelity user flows in Figma and implementing software localization for accessibility

• React
• TypeScript
• GraphQL
• Figma
• Git
• Azure DevOps

Software Engineer Intern

Nautilus Software Technologies

• Developed a chatbot using JavaScript designed to teach Boolean algebra to grade school students, with three selectable levels of difficulty

• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Git
• GitHub

Computer Science Teaching Assistant

Princeton University · Computer Science Department

• Solidified over 30 students’ understandings of algorithms and data structures by preparing and teaching weekly small-group sections
• Assisted 100+ students in debugging their Java programming assignments during dedicated one-on-one office hours, for 4 hours per week

Head Web Development Editor

The Daily Princetonian

• Oversaw and developed dynamic newsworthy web projects using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React, with 4000+ monthly visitors
• Supervised production of 40 web projects over two-year tenure as Head Editor, and trained 25 staffers in web development fundamentals

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• JQuery
• React
• Git
• GitHub

Small Business Founder & Sole Proprietor

bearthumbs

• Crowdfunded $4326 to design, manufacture, and ship original enamel pins and stickers from scratch directly to 150 consumers, across two Kickstarter campaigns:
  • Jan 2021: Norse Spirit Animals — An Enamel Pin Series
  • August 2020: Lightning in a Bottle: An Enamel Pin
• Manage personal Etsy shop with $720 revenue from 73 sales, while maintaining perfect streak of 100% 5-star reviews

• Illustrator
• Figma

Communications Intern

World Wildlife Fund

• Designed infographics and press release materials on ad hoc basis with rapid turn-around time
• Conducted internal research and established workflow for fiscal plans, reports, and inaugural internal newsletter

• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• DaVinci Resolve

Princeton University

Computer Science · Bachelor's of Science in Engineering

Magna Cum Laude · GPA: 3.91/4.00

Stanton College Preparatory School

International Baccalaureate Diploma · Salutatorian

GPA: 4.95/4.00 (Weighted) · 4.00/4.00 (Unweighted)

Augmented Reality Live Captioning

• Developed networked web and Android applications to transform Google Glass into a real-time transcription and translation tool
• Integrated Glass’s hardware gestures as software input mechanisms. Enable selection of spoken input and output languages
• Leveraged Web Speech and Google Translate APIs to achieve high transcription and translation accuracy

• JavaScript
• Python
• Flask
• Java
• SQL
• SQLite
• HTML
• CSS
• Git
• GitHub

Lawnmower Lunacy

• Led team of 4 in developing an interactive video game, playable in the browser: Mow as much lawn as possible in 60 seconds!
• Implemented random generation of terrain and obstacles, custom object collisions, and settings for detail control and difficulty

• JavaScript
• Three.js
• Git
• GitHub

Princeton University Lab Energy Monitor

• Led team of 5 in developing a networked Flask web application to enable university researchers to monitor both current laboratory energy consumption and historical trends
• Design and implement sustainability-focused, widget-centered UI, in consultation with Princeton University's Office of Sustainability and behavioral science company Evidn
• Conducted user interviews with six graduate student researchers to guide UI design
• Created a multi-purpose header widget to navigate between pages, display and print custom-formatted weekly usage reports, toggle stateful dark mode, and toggle “money mode” to replace energy usage values with their dollar cost equivalents
• Developed dictionary-based system to pass necessary information between front-end and back-end

• JavaScript
• JQuery
• Python
• Flask
• HTML
• CSS
• Figma
• Git
• GitHub

Princeton University 2021 Commencement Issue

• Developed a responsive, mobile-friendly web project compiling 97 news articles from The Daily Princetonian, reflecting on the Class of 2021’s four years of university life
• Designed paginated media gallery, sticky sidebar, set of interchangeable article display cards, and interactive, automatically scrolling Class of 2021 graduate names list
• First place recipient of the New Jersey Press Foundation's 2021-22 College Newspaper Contest in the Web Project category

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• JQuery
• Git
• GitHub