I'm Louis Pham,

and welcome to my page! πŸ‘‹ I'm a software developer based in the Greater Toronto Area. I love all sorts of creating and tinkering, whether it be coding, dance, PC building β€” you name it!


I'm currently at Topstep (check out our openings) providing a supportive and fostering environment for futures traders, both novice and pro, to succeed in their craft.

My journey...

Topstep

Toronto, CA

2024 - now

Intermediate Software Engineer

  • Dockerized application to set up lower environments and prepare for future production deployment improvements
  • improve developer experience with Datadog implementation
  • migrate legacy application via strangler pattern into new PERN + GraphQL application

"haha money printer go brrrrr"

Zensurance

Toronto, CA

2020 - 2024

Software Developer

  • pioneered new internal data-handling tool (NestJS)
  • kickstarted migration of team's monolith to microservices (NestJS)
  • shared knowledge on product's latest technical changes (intra- and cross-team), and advise on legacy systems as an SME
  • learned fancy insurance jargon

"Looks like meat software's back on the menu!"

Link Interac Inc.

Yokohama, JP

2017 - 2019

Assistant Language Teacher

  • prepared and ran English lessons for 3 public elementary schools, working with homeroom teachers to ensure retention of topics
  • ate delicious school lunches and outran all the kids during recess

What does everyone do after graduating university? Moving halfway across the globe for two years, of course!

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Toronto, CA

2017

Student Researcher

  • created Python wrapper scripts for an existing gravitational lensing tool to facilitate team's custom maps and theoretical models
  • got to use a supercomputer (SciNet)!

Keep doing what you were doing in school, but get paid for it this time? Count me in!

University of Toronto

2017
HBSc.

Computer Science, Astronomy & Astrophysics

University of Toronto, KPE Faculty

Toronto, CA

2015 - 2016

Student Developer

  • built UofT's online Sports Hall of Fame
  • created schedule displays for gyms across campus
  • improved user experience with overhauled e-forms in OSCAR EMR

Canada Health Infoway

Toronto, CA

2014 - 2015

Software Developer, Co-op

  • created plugins for a Confluence-based website, such as hover tooltips and lookup tools
  • improved several AngularJS websites with new features and styling

Check out my resumΓ© !

You can also take a peek at my LinkedIn and GitHub, and if you want to contact me directly, send me an email!

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