Welcome! I'm

Nathan Shum

A full-stack developer who loves

tech

Currently Working on...
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Experience

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Projects

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Talk2Me

Developed an app that allows users to chat with a real-time voice bot that gathers domain-specific knowledge to host expert-level conversations on any topic and can be used for anything including mock interviews, small talk practice, language learning, pitch rehearsals, therapy sessions, and customer service simulations

AI Synthetic Video

Trained a convolutional autoencoder using Tensorflow to transform video frames into a latent space and used a vector sampling and interpolation technique to synthesize frames for a new video using a GAN to enhance synthetic video realism. Won the grand prize at UC Berkeley Datathon 5.0!

How To Anything!

App combining LLMs and stable diffusion (before the release of Dall-E and big commerical models) to generate WikiHow-style instruction pages with AI-generated images, crafted with FastAPI, Next.js, and Jinja2 to embed AI-generated images alongside text instructions on each page.

Convolve

C script utilizing Intel Intrinsics SIMD instructions, OpenMP for multithreading, and OpenMPI for multi-processing to apply convolutions for video processing to blur, sharpen, or apply other effects to videos

Paper Beats Rock!

Java-based 2D game where you search for a goals in the dark on randomly generated maps dodging enemy encounters where you play rock-paper-scissors life points on the line, try and climb as many floors as you can!

Calculator

This was my first ever HTML+CSS+Javascript mini-project! Thought it was cute so I'll leave it here, what a long way we've come :-)

Interests

Travel Bucketlist

Want to visit next:

New York City, USA
Hanoi, Vietnam
Seoul, South Korea
Reykjavik, Iceland
Bali, Indonesia

Traveled to:

Tokyo, Japan
Paris, France
Athens, Greece
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Istanbul, Turkey
Bangkok, Thailand
Singapore, Singapore
Beijing, China
Rome, Italy
Macao, Macao

Kdramas

Kdramas I've watched so far, send recs!

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Queen of Tears

11/10 GOAT Kdrama, tears were shed. Nothing will ever compare, enough said.

Lovely Runner

9.5/10 I would say that this is probably my favorite drama thus far! Peak soundtrack, fire story, w characters. Byeon Woo-seok is my goat😤

The Glory

8.9/10 Superrr satisfying watch always made me want to keep up with the next episode. Only wish I felt a little more for the romantic side of the show

Twinkling Watermelon

9.3/10 Found this show when I was looking for something that could fill the void left in my heart after finishing Lovely Runner and discovered this show which was so emotional in a different way than Lovely Runner was. Great show highly recommend

True Beauty

8/10 Was a fun watch, the stakes felt kind of low (probably just relative to the other shows here) but I enojoyed it nonethless and I liked the characters and the humor.

What's Wrong with Secretary Kim?

8/10 My first ever Kdrama, was cute and fun to watch. The cow plushie is hella cute ifykyk

Itaewon Class

8/10 Shoutout Park Seo-joon, bro had to make a comeback on my watchlist this time with a buzzcut (I kinda fw it haha). I was superrr invested in this show but I hated the ending so much

Sweet Home

7/10 As a big fan of the manhwa I feel like the show did the best it could I am just not a huge fan of the CGI which made the action scenes so so for me. I haven't watched the new seasons though so it may have gotten better.

Hierarchy

6.5/10 When I started I was really invested because the glory put my revenge plot expections really high, but it kind of devolved from revenge plot to a weird love triangle where I don't see the chemistry between ANY of the charcters, felt super forced overall