Hello, I'm Lucas Zhang.

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Me

About Me


Hello! My name is Lucas Zhang. I’ve recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a Computer Science Major and a Data Science Minor. This website is both my resume and my sandbox where I can explore new technologies that I find fun or interesting.

My Experiences


Over the last few years, I’ve worked/interned at various places such as Amazon, SAS, Duke University as well as my own school’s Computer Science department. I’ve also taken an active role in my Computer Science community by doing things like directing the Carolina Data Challenge Hackathon and serving as the President of the Computer Science + Social Good Club at UNC.

Software Development Engineer @Cisco
Jan 2023 → Present

Software Development Engineer @Cisco

Work as a member for the Security & Trust Organization on the Solis application. Implemented features across the stack from UI elements to API features.

Software Development Intern @AWS
May 2022 → Aug 2022

Software Development Intern @AWS

Work with other members of the EC2 core team to develop new features for the On Demand Capacity Reservation Fleet product.

Cloud Development Intern @SAS Institute
May 2021 → May 2022

Cloud Development Intern @SAS Institute

Work with a team to develop a ReactJS framework for building Risk web applications on the SAS Viya cloud platform. Developed using Gerrit and JIRA in an Agile environment to track and submit issues and stories.

Research Assistant @Duke Radiation Oncology
Dec 2020 → Oct 2021

Research Assistant @Duke Radiation Oncology

Worked on the Varian Project at Duke Radiation Oncology with Dr. Jackie Wu and Dr. Yang Sheng. Created a desktop application using ElectronJS and ReactJS to display the processed data outputted by the project's machine learning algorithm.

Teaching Assistant @UNC Computer Science
Aug 2020 → May 2021

Teaching Assistant @UNC Computer Science

Assisted Professor in teaching students HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap as well as basic Web Design best practices in introductory class. Held office hours and graded assignments for 2 classes of about 120 students each.

My Projects


Here are some examples of the projects that I’ve worked on in the past few years. They include many applications and projects that I developed on my own time as well as some assignments that I feel particularly proud of. See more in my Github.

Carolina Data Challenge Website
May 2021 → May 2022

Carolina Data Challenge Website

As the Director of Development for the 2021 Carolina Data Challenge, I designed and created the public facing website for the hackathon. It leverages Docker containers to run a ReactJS frontend and Strapi backend CMS. All of this is routed through an NGINX proxy container.

ReactJS
Docker
Strapi
Digital Ocean
Varian Project
Dec 2020 → Oct 2021

Varian Project

This application takes DICOM files as input and interprets the arrays of bitmaps to the render the 3 orthogonal views along with their Dose and Structure overlays. The DICOM files are generated through the research of Dr. Jackie Wu and Dr. Yang Sheng at Duke Radiation Oncology.

ReactJS
ElectronJS
DICOM
Redux
Sound Dancer
May 2020 → Jul 2020

Sound Dancer

This is an audio-reactive wallpaper built for the wallpaper engine. The wallpaper is actually a web application the incorporates JavaScript and a WebGL canvas in addition to the built-in methods from the engine itself to allow the trails to "dance".

JavaScript
Wallpaper Engine
WebGL
Conway's Game of Life Projects
Nov 2019 → Jul 2020

Conway's Game of Life Projects

This is a series of projects where I write Conway's Game of Life in new Languages/Frameworks that I learn. So far it's been written in Java Swing, Angular, and most recently in ReactJS using Redux.

Java Swing
Angular
ReactJS
Redux