Karena Qian is a hard-working undergraduate senior studying computer science and music at SPU. A young but growing programmer, she seeks to always improve her programming skills and grow her knowledge in computer software. An eager learner, she always keeps an open mind and strives to do her best in all of her tasks.
Programming
Languages
Software
Qualities
Seattle Pacific University
2021-2024 (expected graduation)
BS in Computer Science
Bellevue College
2019-2021
Associates in Arts and Sciences
Software Testing and Quality Intern
Impinj
Seattle, WA
June 2023 - September 2023
Created a REST API that provides support and additional features for Impinj’s RFID reader testing suites.
Interacted and collaborated with 6+ professionals both from my team and other teams to ensure that my software project meets demands and is of top quality.
Independently researched and learned 8+ new technologies and concepts, including mocking, FastAPI, Maven, Gradle, Cake (C# Make), pytest, poetry, Docker scripts, and more.
Initiated a collaboration between the Impinj marketing team and SPU’s social media team to create this video about my internship experience at Impinj.
You can find some more info in the video and this blog.
Office Manager
Early Intervention Specialists
Graham, WA
December 2022 - Present
Manage office work for new hires, including sending new hire paperwork,
sending out job postings, and developing new contacts.
Additional responsibilities include updating addresses,
reordering supplies for inventory, and sending new client paperwork.
Summer Music Intern
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO)
Seattle, WA
July 2021 - August 2021
Assisted staff in coaching, guiding, and training 15 young violin students.
Applied Skills: leadership, communication, organization, teamwork, mentoring
Violin Mentor
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO)
Seattle, WA
Sept 2020 - May 2021
Mentored 4 young violinists one-on-one from the Prelude String Orchestra.
Applied Skills: leadership, communication, organization, mentoring
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A C# library I created during a CS course at Seattle Pacific University that includes and manipulates various aspects and traits of directed graph objects. I've also created a client menu program that displays all the methods and functionalities of the library.
A Rust project I created during a CS course at Seattle Pacific University that compiles a program based on the "square-circle" BNF grammar and outputs it in either Scheme or Prolog.
A C++ project I completed during a CS course at Seattle Pacific University that creates and manipulates a linked list of books. I also created a C++ program that constructs a menu akin to a virtual bookstore.
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A Java program I completed during a programming course at Bellevue College that manipulates and uses a list of wacky BNF grammars to generate silly sentences.
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A Java program I created during a programming course at Bellevue College that pairs up groups of men and women with each other based on the "stable marriage" CS problem.
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A C# program I created during a programming course at Bellevue College that runs a guessing game, in which a player has to guess a random word picked from a word bank.
This is the senior project that I am participating in as a member of a 5-person team to fulfill the last and final requirement of my Computer Science major. It is a web application with RFID components designed to assist the Engineering and Computer Science Lab Coordinater with monitoring and keeping record of lab equipment and provide students and faculty a streamlined reservation process. If successful, our project could potentially be adapted and put to good use by the ECS department. I was assigned as a back-end developer, and so I mainly worked on developing the backend and the middleware. I also did some work with the RFID hardware, mainly on the research side.
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A C++ program that I developed with another colleague that encrypts and decrypts files using the AES algorithm. This program provides a command line menu interface through which the user can interact with the AES algorithm and command it to either encrypt or decrypt a given file. I served as the project lead and the lead developer.
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