Janakitti Ratana-Rueangsri

Research Assistant

Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory (SIRRL)•  September 2023 - December 2023

- Developing new software approaches using PyTorch to improve social interaction in AI robotics, with a focus on continual learning over long-term interactions with humans

Software Engineering Intern

YouTube•  May 2023 - August 2023

- Built a full-stack tool to automatically create test YouTube channels and qualify them for monetization, eliminating the need for manual configuration and cross-team approvals; reduced test channel creation time from up to a week to ~3s - Developed a C++ RPC handler that interacts with multiple services to emulate the YouTube monetization sign-up flow and implemented a web UI for the handler using TypeScript, LitElement, and Redux - Led design discussions about backend latency and scalability, worked cross-functionally with 6 teams, and conducted user studies for UX design

3D Software Developer

Side Effects Software Inc•  January 2023 - April 2023

- Created a feature for customizing gravity effects on volumetric fluids based on density for more realistic pyro simulations (ex. fire, smoke, explosions) with VEX and OpenCL - Designed and built a feature in C++ for mirroring 3D model attributes (ex. color) based on the model’s topology using graph algorithms - Developed the next-generation UI for the Houdini VFX software using C++ and Qt

Software Developer Intern

Google•  May 2022 - August 2022

- Developed an image processing library in Go for extracting/categorizing common sub-images between pairs of images using graph algorithms; integrated it into a screenshot diffing tool used by 300+ teams across Google - Designed and built an extensible Angular UI for constructing complex queries to filter and search for screenshot images

AR/VR Developer

Spatial•  September 2021 - December 2021

- Built 3D UI features and improved the overall UX of the Spatial VR collaboration platform (spatial.io) for Oculus using Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit - Developed a feature to monitor the loading state of 3D models in a Unity scene in C#, improving the overall app loading experience - Implemented VR headset features on mobile iOS/Android app with React Native

Full Stack Developer

DarwinAI•  January 2021 - April 2021

- Developed a React UI for an ML platform used by doctors to identify the presence of COVID-19 in patients based on lung X-rays - Reduced load time of a heavyweight React table component by 86% by optimizing API calls to the ChRIS medical cloud computing platform

Software Developer

Providius Corp.•  May 2020 - August 2020

- Built an app for configuring the Linux kernel packet scheduler with Python, Flask, Socket.io, and Angular, making it easier to simulate faulty network connections to test telemetry products - Reduced CPU usage of a web app by 24% by developing a custom browser in C++, using Qt and Chromium Embedded Framework

University of Waterloo, Waterloo

Software Engineering, BE•  September 2019 - Present

Relevant courses: Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Concurrency, Databases, User Interfaces, Software Testing, Numerical Computation, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence