code · cameras · collecting places
hi, i’mjacqueline.
systems design engineering @ university of waterloo, graduating may 2027, open to new-grad swe roles.
the road so far
where i’ve been building.
↳ hover the route to trace the journey
RBC
Toronto
Summer 2022
Innovation Developer Intern · InnerSource
RBC
Toronto
Winter 2023
Software Developer Intern · HomeX
PointClickCare
Toronto
Fall 2023
Software Engineering Intern · Point of Care
Carta
San Francisco
Summer 2024
Software Engineering Intern · Total Compensation
Intuit
Toronto
Winter 2025
Software Engineering Intern · Numaflow, event-driven apps
Microsoft
Redmond
Fall 2025
Software Engineering Intern · Azure Managed Redis
Ramp
New York
Summer 2026
Software Engineering Intern · Forward Deployed Eng
selected work
things i’ve built & am proud of.
from Kubernetes-native streaming systems to award-winning hackathon hacks. here’s what happens when curiosity meets a keyboard.
Apache Pulsar ↔ Numaflow
open-source contributor · numaproj-contrib
a user-defined source & sink connector that plumbs real-time events between Apache Pulsar and Numaflow pipelines.
- Java
- Apache Pulsar
- Docker
Children's Aid Society
built pro-bono with UW Blueprint · nonprofit software
🧸 a supervised-access case-management platform so social workers can spend less time on paperwork and more with families.
- Python
- TypeScript
- React
write:here
Hackville 2023
point your camera at handwriting and it becomes an email. AI-powered OCR that turns a scrap of paper into a sent message.
- TypeScript
- React
- Computer Vision
Zara, Redesigned
personal build · vanilla front-end
a full Zara storefront rebuilt from scratch: no frameworks, no libraries, just hand-written HTML, CSS & JS and a lot of attention to every pixel.
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
Back to the Future: Zork
personal build · interactive fiction
🚗⚡ a text adventure through the Back to the Future universe: a love letter to 1980s interactive fiction, explored one typed command at a time.
- Java
moments
places i’ve been lately.
shot on the road between co-ops, from taiwanese hot-spring towns to indonesian volcanoes at sunrise.
↔ drag the polaroids to rearrange them
off the clock
a few true things about me.
i’m driven by curiosity and a desire to build things that make life a little simpler, more meaningful, and more beautiful. the rest is coffee, cameras, and long walks in new cities.
studied abroad at NTU Singapore
spent a term at Nanyang Technological University taking Data Science and Artificial Intelligence courses. then spent every free weekend exploring Southeast Asia, from buzzing cities to volcano summits to quiet beaches.
hack the north organizer
hackathons are where i fell in love with building. now i help run Canada's largest one, so the next person can find that spark too.
on my nightstand
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
on meaning, mortality, and doing work that matters.
Educated
Tara Westover
on curiosity as a way out, and forward.
