Hello, I'm Simon. I'm a full-stack software developer currently attending UC Irvine. I have 2 years of experience and I love building sites & apps. Some of my hobbies are trying new food spots and watching my goat Steph Curry.
My Projects
Leksa
A student-focused food social media app, including AI-powered personalized recommendations and tailored for college communities
ZotServices
An online marketplace designed to connect UCI students with student-run services, enabling users to post, explore, and review various offerings.
AnimeNinjas
Developed a fully responsive anime recommendation website with 100+ monthly users, featuring a Python scraper for 25,000+ anime, MongoDB integration, user authentication, reviews, and optimized infinite scroll for 15% improved user retention.
FabFlix
Led a team to develop and deploy a scalable cybercommerce movie catalog with 30,000+ movies and 100,000+ stars, leveraging MySQL replication, Docker, and Kubernetes to optimize performance and reduce server load by 60%.
My Skills
- Python
- Java
- C/C++
- JavaScript
- SQL
- PHP
- TypeScript
- Swift
- C#
- HTML/CSS
- MIPS Assembly
- Go
My experience
University of California - Irvine
Irvine, CA
Graduating with a BS in Computer Science and minor in Informatics
Sep 2021 - Jun 2025Full-Stack Software Engineer
Office of Informative Techology | Irvine, CA
Worked for the Office of Informative Techology at University of California - Irvine, maintaining and upscaling their graduation commencement website as well as all the SaaS related to it.
Dec 2022 - presentJr. Full Stack Software Engineer Intern
DigiTechIT Solutions | Remote
Became an full stack software engineer intern where we launched an imaging compression, tagging, and application microservice.
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024Software Engineer Intern
CoreLogic | Remote
Incoming Software Engineer Intern at CoreLogic
Jun 2025 - Sep 2025Contact me
Please contact me directly at tcao10@uci.edu or through this form.