Xiao Pu

Prince George’s Park Residences, 35 Prince George’s Park, Block 24 #06-20H Singapore 118429

HP: 83503036

xp.xiaopu@gmail.com

Education

National University of Singapore, Singapore — Computer Science

Specialisation: Software Engineering & Database System

Admit Year: 2015/07

Expected graduation: 2019/07

GPA: 4.92 (upon 5.0)

Expert Areas

Java

Given a lightning talk on Java generic, which introduced the design behind Java generic. The talk also showed several pitfalls and their corresponding best practices in using Java generic.
Written 7000-8000 lines of code in Java for both OSS projects and school projects.

Code Quality

Given a lightning talk on code quality best practices.
Applied some best practices such as builder pattern and factory pattern in Effective Java to OSS project: TEAMMATES.
Refactored the log system of OSS project: TEAMMATES, which helped improve the code quality.

Static Analysis

Given a lightning talk on customized checks in CheckStyle, which helped audience know more about the mechanisms behind static analysis tools. In addition, it also showed a way to enforce extra coding standards in a project.
Written a book chapter: Introduction to static analysis in Java. It helps beginners to learn the concepts of static analysis and make use of static analysis tools quickly.
Written a technical report of static analysis in TEAMMATES, which helped enforce extra standards and improve the code quality in TEAMMATES.

Other Technical Skills

Proficient in SQL and DBMS
Enthusiast of PHP, HTML and JavaScript
Familiar with Google App Engine

Experience

OSS Project: TEAMMATES

2017 January and onwards

TEAMMATES is an online peer evaluation/feedback system used in over 1399 institutions globally. Github Page: https://github.com/TEAMMATES/teammates

Accomplishments:
- Contributed 2000-2200 lines Java, JavaScript and HTML code.
- Committer in the community.
- Written a technical report of static analysis in TEAMMATES, which helped improve the code quality of the project.
- Developed several integration test cases, which increased the test coverage.
- Refactored the log system, which eliminated some technical debts and improved the code quality.
OSS Project: FreeCodeCamp, CheckStyle

2017 January and onwards

FreeCodeCamp is open source codebase and curriculum. CheckStyle is a static analysis tool in Java.

Accomplishments:
- Added additional test cases for a challenge in FreeCodeCamp (#13499), which helped cover edge cases for testing.
- Written test cases for GUI model in CheckStyle (#3957), which helped maintain 100% test coverage without suppressions.
- Observed the differences in contribution workflow between TEAMMATES and CheckStyle (Observation Report), which benefited TEAMMATES in terms of improving contribution workflow.
Teaching Assistant in Software Engineering Course

National University of Singapore — 2016/2017 Semester 2

Served as a teaching assistant in CS2103 software engineering course.

Accomplishments:
- Facilitated 8 students’ learning in software engineering so that the students could build their products with good software engineering practices in the end.
Award: Dean’s List in School of Computing

National University of Singapore — 2016/2017 Semester 1
School Project: Do-er List, a task manager application

National University of Singapore — 2016/2017 Semester 1

Taken CS2103T software engineering course and built a todo list application using Java in a team of four. Github Page: https://github.com/CS2103AUG2016-W09-C4/main

Accomplishments:
- Contributed to the implementations of basic CRUD(Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations, which helped achieve a minimum viable product.
- Developed GUI using JavaFX, which improved the user interface.
- Implemented undo/redo features, which improved the usability of the product.
- Wrote the majority of automated GUI test cases and some integration test cases using JUnit, which helped achieve 93% test case coverage.
- Contributed to user guide and developer guide, which enhanced the user experience.
Teaching Assistant in Programming Course

National University of Singapore — 2016/2017 Semester 1

Served as a teaching assistant for CS1101S (Programming Methodology), a beginning course in computer science.

Accomplishments:
- Conducted weekly tutorials to facilitate learning processes of 8 students.
- Explained the concepts of abstraction and recursion clearly to students.
- Coordinated with other 10 tutors in setting and marking tasks for students.
School Project: NUSDing - NUS SoC Orbital 2016, Apollo 11 Achievement

National University of Singapore — 2015/2016 Special Term II

Built a question-answer platform using HTML, JavaScript and PHP with the help of Laravel framework in a team of two. Github Page: https://github.com/xpdavid/Ding Website: http://nusding.info/

Accomplishments:
- Developed a voting system for answers.
- Developed a subscription system for questions/topics.
- Developed an experience system for answering/posting questions so that users could obtain experience points when answering/posting questions.
- Implemented user authentication systems such as NUS IVLE authentication.
- Developed a messages system for users.
- Developed a website notification system as long as an email notification system.
- Developed an invitation system so that user could invite others to answer questions.
- Contributed to project documentations.
NUS Science & Technology Undergraduate Scholarship

National University of Singapore — 2015/08