Hi! I Am
Yihe Chen
A student at Mcmaster majoring in Automation and Smart Systems with hands-on experience
- Prototyping Web and Mobile ApplicationsA+
- Cloud ComputingA+
- Machine LearningA
My Projects
Beyond the classroom
My Personal Website
Personal website built with Ruby on Rails. Uses AWS RDS PostgreSQL for data storage, Docker for containerization, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and Nginx reverse proxy with HTTPS and TLS/SSL certificate on AWS EC2.
Paloma Club
Social platform built with MERN. Auth via Clerk; real-time messaging over SSE; background workflows with Inngest (user sync, 24-h story expiry, reminders, daily digests); media on ImageKit CDN. Deployed on Vercel via GitHub CI/CD.
Edutrade
A trading simulation platform. Zero-risk crypto paper trading via Stripe sandbox; security with JWT + Spring Security and Spring Mail MFA; data with JPA/Hibernate on MySQL; 30+ REST APIs with JUnit/Mockito tests in GitHub Actions CI.