Qi Zhao

88 Harbour St, Toronto, ON · (416)-666-0743 · steve-qi.zhao@outlook.com

I am a Software Developer at SOTI Inc.

Education

University of Toronto

Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC)

Completed all courses with excellent grades.
Took 8-month internship at SOTI and completed porting of Tizen system project from scratch.

Click here to see ARIA 2019 Banner , Internship Report or Download Mitacs Accelerate Award Report

Sep 2018 - Dec 2019

Xi'an Jiaotong University (China)

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)

Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering

GPA: 3.58 / Average Score: 86.55

Sep 2014 - Jun 2018

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan)

Student Exchange Program

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering

GPA: 4.07

Sep 2016 - Jan 2017

Work Experience

Software Developer – Linux Project

SOTI Inc, Mississauga, Canada

Designed the Scheduler Module to handle scheduled execution of scripts in multi-thread environment.

Composed the PackageManager Module to manage packages on different Linux distros using design pattern.

Refactored modules of network connection manager and kiosk mode to enhance software stability and applicability.

Improved bash scripts for Linux agent to offer password protected enrollment and to accomplish interactive prompts.

Supported source code coverage. Integrated auto-generation of unit test coverage report into CI/CD pipeline.

Jan 2021 – Present

Software Developer – Tizen Project

SOTI Inc, Mississauga, Canada

Developed a Tizen native UI application to enroll the MobiControl agent into SOTI MobiControl cloud environment.

Completed full porting process of Tizen agent, including enrollment, sending notification, remote control, collecting watch sensor data, etc. Deployed Tizen agent into production environment.

Conducted work on cmake, make and cross-compiling through different platforms.

Feb 2020 – Dec 2020

Research & Development (Student Intern)

SOTI Inc, Mississauga, Canada

Developed an agent (Tizen native service application) that runs on Tizen system and talks to SOTI MobiControl server.

Ported the most useful features and functions from the existing SOTI Linux MobiControl agent to the Tizen agent.

Achieved inbound and outbound remote control between Tizen devices and SOTI MobiControl server.

May 2019 – Dec 2019

Teaching Assistant

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Organized and led CSC258 Computer Organization (prof:Steve Engels) course tutorials in fall and winter 2018, fall 2019.

Provided students with one-on-one tutoring and summarized common problems to help professors improve course design.

Demonstrated exceptional communication and leadership skills in a team-based environment.

Sep 2018 – Apr 2019

IT Consultant Intern

Sichuan Communication Design, China Comservice, Chengdu, China

Coordinated the network development among digital TV set-top boxes and designed an initial version of the database.

Designed webpage for front-end users via interfaces with the back-end database using the AngularJS framework.

Supported the Online Intelligent Fault Diagnosis System for set-up boxes and created the client-side web application.

Jul 2017 - Oct 2017

Projects

Course Projects, University of Toronto, Canada

SMPE: Stock Market Prediction on Edge, Edge Computing

Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

Established a three-layered LSTM prediction model using Python TensorFlow and deployed it in an Android mobile app.

Built a mobile-edge-cloud system on Python Flask to offload stock market prediction from Microsoft Azure Cloud into the edge server and reduced latency by more than 35%.

Click here to see SMPE Project Report or Slides

Vehicle Collision Analysis in Toronto, Data Science and Analytics

Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

Streamlined open-source vehicle collision database in Toronto to construct the best-fit prediction model utilizing Python.

Proposed feasible solutions to problems revealed from model to facilitate adequate preparation for possible future collisions.

Click here to see Project Report , Slides or Download the Project ipython Notebook

YLAB Wireless Network and Network Security Lab, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Dynamic Guidance Decision Algorithm in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Oct 2017 - May 2018

Implemented a dynamic real-time route guidance algorithm with en-route decision making strategy through MATLAB which can significantly reduce travel time and improve traffic efficiency.

Click here to see DRGE Project Report(in Chinese) or one page Abstract(in English)

Wi-Fi Selector for Android Devices

Mar 2017 - Jul 2017

Designed the graphic user interface and functions of the Wi-Fi Selector application in Java.

Created a MySQL database within the framework of the application to load data into the Tomcat server.