BENSON CHOW

• Built tag-driven CI/CD pipelines for two internal services with GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners, gated on integration tests against the started containers.
• Wrote an idempotent Bash script that provisions a bare Linux VM into a deployment target.
• Containerised both services with Docker Compose behind Traefik, automating TLS certificate setup and mapping internal hostnames into the containers.
• Coordinated firewall rule changes and port openings with the corporate IT team to make the services reachable across the intranet.
• Integrated SFTPGo into a Django REST Framework backend, with role-based access control through Keycloak.
• Added API key authenticated endpoints for machine to machine transfers between the two services.
• Wrote a Django scheduler service, deployed in its own container, for periodic dispatch between them.
• Built the React and TypeScript frontend, covered by a Django test suite.

Internship certificate

• Migrated the local document management system I built during the internship, which uses OCR, vector search and local AI-driven document analysis, to a Windows system with a GTX 5070ti, utilising WSL2 & Docker, delivering the application to a paying user.
• Did the same migration to an NVIDIA DGX Spark, for ARM support.
• Added features like syncing the vector database to a Windows directory, AJAX requests to the backend for local AI document analysis and ability to select different local LLM models for analysis.
• On a Apple Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512GB of unified memory, I set up Surfsense manually, configuring OpenSSH, a VPN, Redis, PostgreSQL, Docling and other backend services.
• Wrote .plist files for those services so they start on boot with the correct environment variables.

• Researched the finetuning of an AI powered optical character recognition (OCR) program for document scanning.
• Developed a offline document management system that utilizes OCR, vector databases for search, and local AI-driven document analysis, utilizing a GNU/ Linux system with three RTX Ada 5880 GPUs.

Internship certificate

• Researched the ESP32 micro controller for a teaching curriculum, creating a DIY security camera as a demonstration project.
• Developed multiple web applications using Flask, Python, JavaScript, and HTML.

• Automated processing and formatting of Hong Kong Annual Traffic Census data, reducing manual workload and errors.
• Developed a PyQt6-based Windows application with a user-friendly interface for data input/ selection and tool execution.
• Implemented six specialized tools to convert and validate custom CDL, A/B, COR, and XDT files into standardized Excel reports.
• Leveraged multithreading to maintain responsive UI during intensive data processing tasks.
• Packaged the application as a standalone .exe using PyInstaller for seamless distribution to non-technical staff.

On track for a first class degree.

Relevant coursework: Oxford-IIIT Pet classifier, ENG1 group game project

• Trained an 30 class image classifier on the Oxford-IIIT Pet dataset, reaching 72% accuracy over 30 epochs.
• Built a top down 2D game with a team, then picked up another group's codebase and continued their game for the handover assessment.

Societies: Infrastructure Officer, York Free and Open Source Society (YFOSS)

• Help manage two Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers in the campus datacentres.
• Help maintain the society website and other applications the society hosts.

Relevant coursework: Campus Interactive Map

• Developed an interactive campus map using Leaflet.js and satellite imagery to display paths, entrances, parking, and stairs.
• Implemented Dijkstra's Algorithm for shortest path calculation with filters (e.g., avoiding stairs).
• Created an event reporting system with MongoDB, role-based user accounts, and caching for efficient data access.