LOCATION
KINGSTON, ON, Canada

DARWIN CHEN

AI-inclined web developer

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I build clean, fast, human-centered interfaces and data-aware tools—favoring clarity, performance, and quietly sophisticated interactions.

01 — Experience

Timeline

  1. Software Developer Intern — Ericsson

    · Ottawa, ON
    • React + OpenSearch dashboards for Jenkins pipelines (faster stage-level triage).
    • Python AST validator for error IDs (prevents collisions, enforces conventions).
    • Bulk Jenkins job tooling to improve CI hygiene.
    • Unsupervised fault classification (Drain3, MiniLM, HDBSCAN).
    • LLM failure-cause recognizer (llama.cpp) with structured JSON outputs.
  2. Web Developer & Manager — Pathfinders

    · Fredericton, NB
    • UI improvements and site maintenance across PHP/HTML/CSS apps.
    • Translation workflow via custom Google Apps Script plugins.
    • Analytics/Ads/Tag Manager; experience with Cloudflare, DreamHost, WordPress.
  3. Teaching Assistant — Queen’s University

    · Kingston, ON
    • CISC 151 (Elements of Computing with Data Analytics) & CISC 203 (Discrete Structures II).
02 — Projects

Selected Work

On-Device LLM Chat Agent

Quantized LLM + tool use for private, offline chat (React Native + Python).

Fishing Data Mapper

Scraped lake/species data → interactive React + Leaflet map.

03 — About

Background

Education

School
Queen’s University
Degree
Bachelor of Computing (AI Specialization)
Dates
• 1-year internship

Leadership

  • Perception Integration Team Lead — Queen’s AutoDrive (Lv.4 AV platform, MATLAB 3D sims), .
  • Consulting Design Team Manager — QMIND (LLM backend, LangChain optimization), .

Focus Areas

LLM tooling & private inference Front-end performance & UX Data / observability pipelines
04 — Stack

Tools & Tech

Languages

Python JavaScript TypeScript PHP HTML CSS MATLAB SQL

Frameworks & UI

React React Native Leaflet WordPress OpenSearch Dashboards

LLM / ML

llama.cpp LangChain MiniLM HDBSCAN Drain3

DevOps & Tools

Jenkins Cloudflare Google Apps Script DreamHost Git/GitHub Analytics/Tag Manager

Let’s talk

Available for roles and collaborations.