Xilin Wang

"If you want to be irreplaceable, be DIFFERENT."

-- A random unimportant guy from instagram --

Who Am I?

I was born and raised in Shiyan, China. After spending the first 60% of my life in a small town, I decided to go out and see the big world. In 2014, at age of 16, I went to St. Louis, Missouri alone to start my American life. Seven unbelievable years later, I have worked hard to earn my Bachelor's degree in computer science at UCSB, but this is far from the end of my journey. Now, in 2021, a whole new chapter of my life starts at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor...

Little More About Me:

Coding has become part of my life; But it is only ONE aspect of it. My life is so much more than just coding. I love balling. You probably can find me in the gym three days a week. I spend most of my evening time watching NBA. Oh, in case you don't know, I am a Heat fan. We are going to make some noises in the east this year. I aslo love Japanese animes, my favorite one is Fate series by Type-Moon; it is the G.O.A.T. And of course, I love drinking and partying like all other engineers, cheers!

Chaminade College Preparatory School

• House Mauclerc Senior Leader
• CYC Basketball Team Starting Point Guard
• Varsity Bowling Team
• Best Science Performance Award Winner
• ACT: 33/36
• TOEFL: 106/120

University of California, Santa Barbara

• College of Engineering Honor Student
• IEEE and Data Science Club Member
• CS Department Lower Divison Tutor
• Graduate with high honors (Top 8.5%)
• GRE: 329/340
• GPA: 3.91

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PROCESS ONGOING: 50/100
• GPA: 3.85

Skills/Abilities

Programming

Self-Evaluation

Experiences

FView Intern

Worked as front end engineer assistant, help maintain company's website, extract users' feedback, as well as add or update features that meet users' requirement

Axiom Camp

Coded massively in a span of three weeks. Created multiple iOS apps using Swift and XCode. Published a calendar software on app store that was designated for UCSB students

IEEE Club

Created the classic snake game from scratch using python. Added customized features to make the game more playable and elegant. Later using Unity developed the 3D version of this game

Inceptio Intern

Worked as a backend engineer writing APIs to address demands from other engineers. Wrote python scripts that allow other team to use team's product faster and more easily.

Ploomber Intern

Worked as a software engineer maintaining company's codebase, debugging user reported issues, improving CI/CD pipelines, and writing detailed documentations on user guides and changelogs.