Sorren JaoFull Stack AI Developer
Profile

A full-stack web developer equipped with a background in AI & LLM technologies and UX design / UI principles. Has past experience working in the FinTech domain, embodying a team spirit and an agile mindset, making insightful contributions to sprint meetings. Motivated to work closely with UX and build highly responsive consumer web applications. A natural curiosity for emerging technologies.

Technical Skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML)

Open AI LLMs, Ollama LLMs, Hugging Face Embeddings, Ultralytics image AI, vaderSentiment, Sentiment, Tesseract (OCR)

Database Systems

PostgreSQL, postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MsSQL, NoSQL, phpMyAdmin

Front-end & Back-end Programming Languages

JavaScript (ES6), HTML5, CSS3, SQL, Java, Python, C#, PHP, Dart, Ruby, TypeScript

Frameworks & Libraries

Node.js, React.js, Next.js, Ajax, Express, EJS, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, SASS, Android Libraries, Flutter Libraries

Cloud Services & Server Deployment

AWS (EC2, RDS, Cloud9, CLI), MongoDB, Render, Vercel, SupaBase, Microsoft Azure

DevOps CI/CD Tools

Docker, Bitbucket, Jira

Version Control & Collaboration

Git, GitHub, GitKraken, Bitbucket, Jira

Development Practices

Agile/Scrum collaboration, remote work coordination, problem-solving, continuous learning

Projects
02/2025 – 05/2025

A chatbot that provides financial advice based on the user's calculated expenses and income. Interpolates the user's data and outputs its insights.

Tech Stack: Node.js, JavaScript, Express, Json, Ollama, MySQL, MSSQL, Go, Azure, Docker, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS

A custom chatbot prototype with a personality fine-tuned through creative prompt engineering. Designed to simulate my digital persona and interact with users in a unique, engaging manner.

Tech Stack : React, TypeScript, Express.js, Node.js, MongoDB, JSON, NoSQL, Open AI, Render, HTML, CSS

A tool to detect the selected animal(s) in a large dataset of images. Annotate & Label: Tag, categorize, and review images, using Makesense.ai

Tech Stack: YOLOv8, TensorFlow, Python, Matplotlib Pyplot, Pandas, Numpy

Professional Experience

Expense Trend

AI Developer / Backend Developer
02/2025 – 05/2025
  • •Deployed and configured production-ready LLM servers using AWS services (EC2) and Linux command line while reducing deployment costs
  • •Collaborate through agile meetings and JIRA tickets with internal developers to connect front-end layer functionalities to backend APIs and coordinate end-to-end testing
  • •Developed RESTful API endpoints in Express.js and performed deliberate unit tests, integration tests and troubleshooting to ensure API communication behaves as expected through Yarn (Swagger)
  • •Coordinate code reviews and curated documentations for new developers

    • Cybersalt Consulting Ltd.

    Web Developer
    05/2022 – 09/2022
  • •Developed several business websites (with Joomla! and WordPress), improving the SEO, websites' user interface (UI) and user experience (UX)
  • •Led front-end development for landing pages. Communicated with the clients and internal staff to obtain feedback for the landing pages 
  • •Actively engage in team sprint meetings to discuss ongoing tasks, any encountered issues, and conduct agile reviews through ClickUp
  • •Oversaw daily troubleshooting and customization of the website's source code: CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and HTML5.

    • Graduate & Postdoctural Studies, Simon Fraser University

    Web Designer/Marketing Communications Specialist
    01/2021 – 09/2021
  • •Web design/marketing emails, graphic design for the web banners, and content-managed SFU website pages
  • •Collaborated with student clientele to obtain feedback and requests for their blog showcase webpage
  • •Actively engage in departmental meetings to discuss ongoing tasks, any encountered issues, and news regarding the student body
  • •Developed an innovative JavaScript jQuery browser to increase performance optimization with graduate student profiles. Doubling profiles per week
    • Education
  • •The award winner for the Lighthouse Labs prize funding.

    • Bachelor of Science, School of Interactive Arts & Technology

    Simon Fraser University
    09/2016 – 04/2024
  • •A multidisciplinary program combining Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and UX Design. Coursework and projects explored topics such as machine learning, reinforcement learning, data analytics, human–AI interaction, and LLM-based experimentation.
    • Certificates
    Amazon AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Pending
    Hugging Face - The LLM Course — Has successfully completed Fundamentals of LLMs