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Projects
Programs
Websites
Digital Art
Drawings
Photographs

Jakes Bejoy's Portfolio
March 2010 - February 2011
Dr. Yiqi Luo's Ecolab
December 2009 - June 2010
Stanford Alumni Mentoring
April 2008 - 2015
Fellowship in Christ at Stanford
September 2006 - October 2009
Stan-four-d at Tsinghua
Summer 2006
Stanford Table Tennis Club
June 2005 – October 2009
V2 Rocket Technology
March 2004

Stanford Alumni Mentoring

April 2008 - 2015

The Stanford Alumni Mentoring program allows Stanford students to find Stanford alumni and develop mentoring relationships with them. The role of the website was to allow participants to manage their profiles and to help students find mentors that matched their criteria.

To put it succinctly, program administration in the past was hell. Manually tracking people, handling paper applications, and answering bug reports became a full-time job of its own. The Stanford Alumni Mentoring team thus hired me to overhaul the original SAM website to:

  1. automate as much of the administrative tasks as possible,
  2. put the application process online,
  3. improve the existing search algorithm,
  4. improve the aesthetics of the site, and
  5. build a more robust, bug-free system.

The current site is a result of several rewrites in a span of a few years. It was by far my biggest project, and I learned a significant amount from my experience, in particular, about using classes and abstracting the user interface.