Software Engineering @ Western University (B.E.Sc. '27). I build developer tooling and applied AI — design system infrastructure at Intuit, systems for healthcare and public safety, and LLM measurement pipelines for empirical finance research.
📍 Canada, with roots in Hong Kong · 🌐 nathanwan.ca
- activism-matrix — research: does a new theory of shareholder activism hold up against real SEC filings? Operationalizing DesJardine's PSI model (Academy of Management Review, 2025) into a coding rubric, then classifying SC 13D campaigns with an LLM pipeline — calibrated against the paper's worked cases and validated by blind human coding
- Aerotir — real-time crowd-density detection from live drone feeds (RTMP/WebRTC ingest, Modal GPU inference, CSRNet)
- Eat Leet Repeat — a LeetCode activity tracker; currently rebuilding it multi-user with per-user RLS and adaptive polling
Software Developer Intern — Intuit, Design System Team · May 2026 – present Building a release-automation pipeline (n8n + Workato) end-to-end, and contributing to an MCP server that lets developers across QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mailchimp build design-system-conformant frontends. Shipped component updates used by 1,000+ developers.
Full-Stack Software Engineer — Azoma · Feb 2026 – Apr 2026 Built a citation-analysis dashboard visualizing source attribution from AI chatbots. Designed the architecture for a file-upload → context-bundle → grounded-prompt pipeline on AWS. Delivered features for $1M+ ARR clients including Canadian Tire and M&M Food Market.
Freelance Software Engineer · Sept 2025 – Dec 2025 REST and webhook integrations for real-time booking and pricing at a $1M+ travel agency, plus 3 production sites built with React.
AI Software Developer Intern — Qualicom Innovations, QMS ChatBot · May 2025 – Aug 2025 Built an LLM analytics workflow (Bedrock + Redshift) translating natural language to SQL across 200+ retail locations, cutting data retrieval from 15 minutes to 10 seconds. Also built an enterprise analytics chatbot on Kafka event streams for a major Canadian bank.
Software Engineering Intern — Qualicom Innovations, Property Management System · Apr 2024 – Aug 2024 Designed 10+ PostgreSQL schemas and Django REST APIs for a platform managing 10,000+ records, plus an MQTT IoT framework visualizing live data from 1,000+ devices.
Most of this work lives in private repos — happy to talk through any of it.
| Area | Stack |
|---|---|
| Languages | TypeScript, Python, Java, C, SQL |
| Frontend | React, Next.js, React Native, Storybook, Tailwind |
| Backend & Cloud | Node.js, Express, Django REST, PostgreSQL, AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, Bedrock), Docker, Kafka |
| AI | PyTorch, MCP, embeddings + reranking, Gemini, OpenAI, Hugging Face |
| Tooling | Git, CI/CD (n8n, Workato), Vitest, React Testing Library, Supabase |
- 🥇 HackHarvard 2025 — Visa Trust & Transparency Track · VisaVerify, a Chrome extension that scores online transactions for fraud risk
- 🥇 McHacks 2025 — IFEM Track · QCare, an ER patient dashboard with an emotional-support chatbot. Presented to emergency physicians globally at IFEM 2025
- 🏅 Slalom AI Award, Toronto Tech Expo 2025 · Medical Imaging Diagnostics — led 8 developers as Western Cyber Society's Director of AI to build a CNN system detecting TB, pneumonia, and lung cancer at 94% accuracy. Also presented at CUCAI
- 🥇 1st, UI/UX — NexHacks · Prismlines, an AI-powered prediction-market platform where research agents assemble themed fund baskets, with an interface built to make upside, downside, and assumptions legible before you commit
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- 🌲 Sequoia Track — HackBrown
- 🥇 1st @ Overhaul Hackathon — AAA-compliant accessible note-taking app
- 🚀 Finalist @ Hack Western 2024 — HackMatch, a matching app for hackathon teams
- 🧬 IBM Pure Science Award, TTE 2024 — pneumonia detection model (90.6% accuracy)
Basketball, badminton, and teaching skiing. Three cats — Leyla, Leylo, and Fluffy. English and Cantonese, working on Mandarin.
