Justin
Jiang
TAIL № N-JIANG
Software engineer & private pilot. Studying CS and Computer Engineering at USC — currently building channel-platform infrastructure at Shopify.
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About the pilot
CS & Computer Engineering student at USC, minoring in Business Finance — USC Presidential Scholar, GPA 3.87. Class of 2028.
I build fast, polished software — infrastructure at Shopify on Channel Platforms today, and before that a freight-marketplace quoting interface at Hemut (YC X25) and donor-data automation at Deloitte that saved a nonprofit ~$500K a year.
I co-authored a peer-reviewed astrophysics publication from research at Yale, co-founded Valkyrie (winner of USC's Lavalab accelerator), and — off the clock — I fly. Private pilot, Cessna and gliders.
Experience ledger
Shopify
N-SHOP
- Building infrastructure that powers Shopify's merchant presence across external sales channels and the broader commerce ecosystem.
Hemut
N-HMT25YC X25
- Redesigned the freight-marketplace quoting interface in TypeScript, streamlining an orderbook platform for shippers and carriers.
- Built CRM endpoints and refactored consumers onto them — cutting redundant database queries, validated against AWS RDS (PostgreSQL).
Deloitte
N-DLT
- Streamlined a nonprofit client's donor-data workflow with Python and REST integrations — 30% less manual entry, ~$500K saved per year.
- Evaluated software & cloud infrastructure of acquisition targets to advise on technology-driven M&A strategy.
Yale Astrophysics
N-YALE
- Engineered a Python pipeline (NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow) processing observations from 5 telescopes across 7 epochs, with Faster R-CNN supernova classification and isochrone fitting.
- Modeled supernova light curves to a 394 ± 38 Mpc cosmological distance — co-authored a peer-reviewed publication ↗.
Flight deck
When I'm not shipping code, I'm at the airfield. I hold a Private Pilot License and log most of my hours in a Cessna — the same steady, honest airplane most pilots learn on.
Before powered flight I trained in gliders — soaring on ridge lift and thermals with no engine at all, which teaches you to read the air and manage energy better than anything else.
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Project strips
Valkyrie
FEB 2026 — PRESENT
Equine health app that watches a Ring camera feed through a Qwen vision model to catch early colic in horses and alert owners in real time. Now working with the Amazon Ring team to launch on the Ring App Store.
BREW
APRIL 2025
Agentic AI tool that automates personalized cold outreach across email and messaging. Took 1st place ($1.75K) and pulled a 100+ person waitlist off the demo alone.
TempoRun
SOCAL TECH WEEK 2024
iOS app that builds personalized Spotify playlists from workout duration, pace, and BPM targets.
The Click
MULTIPLAYER HORROR
Multiplayer horror game with networked play and AI-driven enemy pathfinding.
ATE Ball
PROJECTION MAPPING
Pool table that detects balls with computer vision and projects each shot's predicted trajectory onto the felt.
OSSA
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ANALYZER
Full-stack app that helps aspiring open-source contributors find the right project to work on.
GitHub ↗Toolkit
Languages
Frameworks
Infra & Tools
Education
University of Southern California
B.S. Computer Engineering & Computer Science · Minor in Business Finance
Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms · Algorithm Analysis · Machine Learning · Professional C++ · Object-Oriented Design · Software Engineering · Distributed Systems · Probability Theory · Trading & Exchanges
Offline
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Let's talk.
Open to internships, collaborations, or a little hangar talk about flying. Radio me.