Who am I?

Personal Info

Kenji Chao

Co-Founder & Lead Android Developer @ Moska Studio •
Master of Software Engineering Student @ Carnegie Mellon University •
Experienced in Android Application Development and Passionate about UI/UX •

My Professional Background

Working Experience

2012 September - PRESENT

Co-Founder &
Lead Android Developer

Moska Studio Inc.

Job Highlights

♦ Developed independently a news and reading application People News Network, which reached more than 700,000 installs on all mobile platforms, primary focused on users in Taiwan.
♦ Developed more than 20 mobile applications, including a pet-tracking application for tracking the daily activity of dogs and transfers sensor data through BLE, and a shark-tracking application which allows users to observe the navigational pattern of sharks that have been tagged with satellite tracking technology all for the purpose of shark conservation.
♦ Provided mobile application development as well as UI/UX flow design services to help customer create high quality and beautiful mobile applications.
♦ Led an 3-people team and achieved an annual growth rate of 15% since 2012.

2013 October - 2016 August

Senior Embedded
Software Engineer

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Job Highlights

♦ Selected as the only software engineer representing ASUS Taiwan and dispatched to Mountain View to cooperate with Google directly from Aug. to Nov. in 2015. Collaborated with engineers at Google and did hands-on programming for a new feature named A/B booting, which will be a standard feature in the next version of Android mobile operating system.
♦ Developed independently an auto power measuring tool running on various ASUS products which saves 70% of time on power measurement.
♦ Developed the power management and CPU idle subsystem in first Android TV device, Google Nexus Player.
♦ Working directly with Google for Android Open Source Project development and chip vendors, including Qualcomm, Intel, and MediaTek, to solve engineering issues.
♦ Take responsibility for Android system board bring up and Bootloader for tablets and mobile phones.

My Education

Education

2016 August - PRESENT

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science in Software Engineering

♦ Coursework: Foundations of Software Engineering, Software Verification and Testing, Software Requirements and Interaction Design.

2011 September - 2013 July

National Taiwan Univerity

Master of Science in Communication Engineering

GPA: 4.2/4.3

♦ Master’s Thesis: “IRS Cloud Multimedia Online Interactive Educational System”
♦ Developed a responsive educational system that enables instructors and students to interact dynamically in minutes, which benefited more than 6,000 instructors and 140,000 students nationwide.
♦ Received National Taiwan University Innovation Award. Our location-based service application which gathers art cultural activities reached more than 20,000 installs, widely reported by famous tech bloggers.
♦ Coursework: Intelligent Devices and Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Phone Programming, Advanced Human Computer Interaction, Introduction to machine-to-machine, Queueing Theory.

2010 September - 2013 July

National Taiwan Univerity

Creativity & Entrepreneurship Program

♦ Nurtured the entrepreneurial spirit and expanded my creativity, and led a project of traveling around Taiwan to fund for the cancerous children. ( Video )

2007 September - 2011 June

National Taiwan Univerity

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

GPA: 3.93/4.0

♦ Entitled National Taiwan University Presidential Award (the 3rd place out of 140 students) in 2008.
♦ Coursework: Computer Programming, Computer Networks, Principle of Communications, Information Theory, Cryptography.

What I’ve been recognized

Honors & Awards

National Taiwan University Innovation Award

May 2012 | National Taiwan University
4th place, and was widely reported by many famous tech bloggers for our location-based service application.

Y.S. Creativity Award

January 2012 | Educational Foundation
Reached the final.

National Taiwan University Presidential Award

January 2008 | National Taiwan University
3rd place in the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering; awarded to the top 5% out of about 140 students each semester.

Street Musicians Licensing Examination

June 2012 | Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
Qualified by singing and playing the guitar at the same time; the pass rate is around 25%.