About me

I'm a Software Engineer interested in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and Distributed Systems.

I am currently a 5th-year undergrad Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo.

I am also working as a full-time Site Reliability Engineer at Electronic Arts.

Besides school and work, I probably spend 50% of my time playing video games and messing around with stuffs. I have wasted around 4000 hrs in DOTA2, written some small mods for Terraria, trying to build my homelab, and more!

I want to share a little bit about myself, as well as posting blogs (tech, game recommendations, and some other stuff) on this site, just as somewhat of a journal, and something that I could reflect back on.

Stuff I Enjoy Doing Recently

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    Learning System Design

    Intrigued in learning how complex large-scale distributed systems are designed and implemented.

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    Building Infogrep

    Infogrep is an open source RAGaaS (Retrieval Augmented Generation as a Service) project.

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    Games I'm on

    Dota2, Diablo 4, Slay the Spire. Trying to start BG3.

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    Pool and Ping Pong

    I enjoy playing pool (8-ball) and ping pong quite a bit, unfortunately not really too good at either of it though.

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Experience

Work

  1. Electronic Arts

    Oct 2024 - Present

    Started my first full-time job as a Site Reliability Engineer while finishing my last year of school. Currently working as a part of EA's Production Infrastructure & Engineering team.

  2. Trend Micro

    May 2024 - Aug 2024

    Site Reliability Engineer internship. Worked on various projects such as Slack notification and alerting for AWS service metrics, Jenkins to GitHub Action migration, an internal Kubernetes tutorial, x86 to ARM64 migration, and more.

  3. RBC

    Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

    IAM Infrastructure internship. Designed and implemented a new CIAM auditing system with Okta and Ansible. Gained a lot of knowledge about windows server and Stonebranch scheduling as well.

  4. BaixingAI

    May 2023 - Aug 2023

    Backend and Site Reliability Engineer internship. Worked on a LLM centralization and chatbot creation platform. Configured the infrastructure in a serverless k8s cluster. Designed and implemented chat protocal with SSE. Implemented a solution for developers to host their LLMs on the platform.

  5. Big Shooter Golf

    Sept 2022 - Dec 2022

    Fullstack Developer internship. Worked on the cross-platform mobile app for a VR and blockchain based startup. Worked with React/StencilJS, and StorybookJS for the frontend stack. Worked with Flask and Quick Admin for the backend stack.

  6. Baixing.com (Former Kijiji China)

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

    Software Engineering internship. I created and maintained a media search engine. Worked on building physical servers for ML. Built a media ETL pipline ingests millions of videos to our internal data lake. Overall a really cool experience to start off my journey and learned a lot!

Education

  1. University of Waterloo

    2019 — 2025

    Software Engineering undergrad. SE at uWaterloo is a 5-year program with 3 years of taking academic courses and 2 years of internships. The 2 years of internships are further broken down into six 4-month terms. I took a gap year after my first year of school and extended my internship, also needed to relax and readjust a bit for school. Can't say I liked school, but loved the internship opportunities Waterloo provided.

  2. Elgin Park Secondary

    2016-2019

    Finished my Highschool Diploma in Surrey, BC. Took AP pyschology, computer science A, micro and macro economics at the same time. Also founder of the Elgin Robotics club and competed in the FTC league. Best record was second place at a provincial tournament.

  3. WFLMS

    2013 — 2015

    World Forigen Language Middle School in Shanghai, China. Studied there for two years before moving to Vancouver.

Blogs

Contact

Cell: (778)988-2087

Gmail: tyrone99926

LinkedIn: Qirong He

IG: tyrone_heee

SteamID: 299409201

GitHub: TyroneHe-0926

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