Chengtao (Tony) Zou 350 Columbia Street West Unit 76 N2L 6G6 Waterloo Canada M +1 (519) 998 3921 E [email protected] W www.tonyzou.com gh tonyzou Education BSc/BCS: Joint Honours Computer Science with Physics, University of Waterloo. 2014–2019 Received one of 10 National Math Scholarships. High School Diploma, Bell High School. 2010–2014 Graduated with Silver Medal and multiple subject awards. Contests and Events Hack the North, Attended Hack the North at UW. 2014 Built a Pebble-based networking application Canadian Math Kangaroo, Math contest. 2014 Placed 3rd in Canada Canadian Mathematics Olympiad, Math contest. 2014 Placed 11th in Canada Canadian Computing Competition, Programming contest. 2013 Placed 1st in Canada Canada/USA Mathcamp, Summer program. 2013 Learned math, machine learning, and some theoretical computer science Experience Developer Intern, Shopify, Ottawa. 2014 Worked on performance team on improving error reporting and Liquid rendering performance. Achievements: { Improved Liquid rendering performance by up to 5x. { Worked on various internal projects including a crash reporter. { Worked with ruby and mruby internals. Mobile App Development Intern, Macadamian, Gatineau. 2013 Worked on app development on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Achievements: { Participated in app development process from start to finish. { Designed and created a functional WP8 video player in C# in 1 week. Technical Skills Interests Language processing, web application scaling, data science, AI & ML, computer graphics, theoretical computer science, pure math, combinatorics & optimization, theoretical physics. 1/2 Programming Languages Know well: C, C++, Ruby, C# Know: JavaScript, Rust, Haskell, Racket Personal Projects TrackTo: A bukkit plugin that uses A* to generate minecart tracks joey: A chess engine with bitmaps and alpha/beta pruning mc_rt: A basic Phong-model raytracer PolyCreate: A physics simulation based game Moose: An LR(1) parser-generator References Available upon request. 2/2