nice to meet you, i'm rachel!|

I am a computer science student at the University of Toronto. I love everything technology — whether it’s to do with healthcare, education, music, or visual media.

/about-me

Hi, my name is Rachel Deng. I am pursuing my Honours Bachelor of Science in computer science with a Focus in AI, and a minor in history and philosophy of science and statistics at the University of Toronto. I enjoy developments in technology intersected with health and society.

Recently, I have been working with:

Java
Python
C
Next.js
PostgreSQL
Spring Boot
JavaScript ES6+
Svelte
Ruby

Peak Diamond 2 in Valorant. Thinks folklore is Taylor Swift’s best album. Misses taking her dog on hikes with a roll of Kodak Gold 200 back home in Vancouver, British Columbia.

/experience

Software Engineer @ Fable Social

Nov. 2024 - Present

Designed and implemented 8+ RESTful API backend using Firebase Cloud Functions and Flask for authentication and CRUD operations
Led development of view tracking features to provide engagement metrics for 50+ club users
Integrated contextual toast notifications across 20 frontend components, improving user experience for 1,000 users
Developed docker containers to reduce onboarding time by 70% for 8 engineers on the team

/projects

Pawmodoro

A cat-themed focus web application with Spotify integration, customizable timers and user statistics tracking. Implemented RESTful APIs using Spring Boot, following Clean Architecture principles and SOLID design patterns.

Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, Mockito, Next.js, SQL, Java Swing

Spotiscover

A web application that recommends songs to users based on their liked songs

Python, Flask

Escaping UofT

A text adventure game played in the command line interface

Python, Pytest

Loqui

An application that assists with communication for people with speech disorders

Svelte

Pomo

A minimalistic pomodoro timer with adjustable work and break settings

Svelte

Bookmarklet

An application that creates browser bookmarks that copy user-specified text to their device’s clipboard

Python