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◆ ABOUT ME
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NGO, SR. BACKEND
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NGO.SPR · IDLE
LOCATION VANCOUVER
GUILD ALLTRUE.AI
ALIGNMENT LAWFUL ASYNC

I'm a senior backend engineer. Currently at Alltrue.ai, I own the backend for an AI safety & compliance product shipped to clients worldwide. I like async systems, dense pipelines, and the kind of monitoring that lets you sleep through on-call.

Before that, I spent five years writing cancer-diagnostics software (my work shows up in papers published in Cell and Nature Scientific Reports), and 2.5 years as a professional Counter-Strike player — captaining rosters for Evil Geniuses, Nouns, and Team Canada.

Gamer + builder, all in one.

» LOADOUT

LANGUAGESPython · Java · C/C++
FRAMEWORKSFastAPI · Django · Flask
DATASTORESPostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis
CLOUDAWS — ECS · Lambda · S3 · EventBridge · Bedrock
APIsREST · GraphQL · Pydantic schemas
MLvector embeddings · Hugging Face · LLM evals
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◆ WORK EXPERIENCE
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BACKEND SOFTWARE DEVELOPER ACTIVE
Alltrue.ai · Vancouver
"Build the arena where LLMs get red-teamed before they ship."
  • Backend owner on an LLM pentesting / AI red-team platform probing customer models against OWASP LLM Top 10 & MITRE ATLAS attack patterns
  • Architected a 3-service redesign of the eval pipeline — distributed batch workers, paginated REST + GraphQL APIs, SQLAlchemy ORM migration off raw SQL
  • Async Redis-queue pipelines with exponential backoff + jitter retry, race-condition hardening, multilingual attack coverage — no request timeouts on long-horizon evals
  • Shipped 30+ correctness fixes across the stack; tightened error handling, authN, rate limiting, observability
  • Deployed on AWS ECS / Lambda / EventBridge / Bedrock; production use by clients worldwide
IN PROGRESS · +XP ACCRUING
MAR 2025
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NOW
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PRO ESPORTS ATHLETE · TEAM CAPTAIN
Evil Geniuses · Nouns · Team Canada
"Lead a party of five across the competitive circuit."
  • Captained rosters across three orgs under sustained high-pressure play
  • Leadership, ownership, split-second decision-making — on live stages
  • Turns out clutch rounds and on-call incidents use the same skill tree
COMPLETED · +2,450 XP
AUG 2022
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MAR 2025
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Imagia Canexia Health · Vancouver
"Ship the artifact that labs worldwide will trust in diagnosis."
  • Built and maintained software used worldwide for cancer diagnosis
  • Bioinformatics pipeline observability + optimization: -35% execution time
  • Portal web app rendering assay results as clinician-friendly PDFs
  • Full SDLC — design reviews, testing, deploy, prod support
COMPLETED · +4,800 XP
JUN 2018
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JAN 2023
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Shah Lab · BC Cancer Research Centre
"Move the terabytes. The research depends on it."
  • Event-driven pipelines moving terabytes of genomics data across cloud + on-prem
  • Shipped alpha of a custom data-management platform (GUI + API)
  • Contributing author on a paper in Cell
COMPLETED · +900 XP
MAY 2017
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DEC 2017
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Pio Lab · Simon Fraser University
"Parse the data. Write the paper. Get published."
  • R + Python scripts automating virtual screening & downstream data parsing
  • Primary author on a paper in Nature Scientific Reports
COMPLETED · +600 XP
MAY 2016
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JUL 2016
◆ PROJECTS
» THE SHOP · 4 ITEMS
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LEGENDARY
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★ LEGENDARY

LLM PENTESTING PLATFORM

AI red-team platform probing customer LLMs against OWASP LLM Top 10 + MITRE ATLAS attack patterns. 3-service redesign, distributed batch workers, async Redis queues with exponential-backoff-&-jitter retry. Shipped 30+ correctness fixes; multilingual coverage.

PythonRedis SQLAlchemyAWS BedrockOWASP
EPIC
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◆ EPIC

CLINICAL ASSAY PORTAL

Web app rendering cancer-diagnostics assay results as clinician-friendly PDFs. Ran in production for labs worldwide.

PythonPostgresPDF
EPIC
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◆ EPIC

BIOINFO PIPELINE OPTIMIZER

Profiled and optimized hot paths in production bioinformatics pipelines. Cut average execution time by 35%.

PythonProfilingObs.
RARE
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RESEARCH DATA ORCHESTRATOR

Event-driven platform moving terabytes of genomics data across on-prem + cloud. GUI + API. Shipped alpha at Shah Lab.

PythonEvent-drGUI
◆ ESPORTS — COUNTER-STRIKE
» THE TROPHY HALL
TEAM CAPTAIN
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PROFESSIONAL COUNTER-STRIKE
2022 – 2025 · TEAM CAPTAIN · NA / INTL CIRCUIT

Two and a half years as a paid esports athlete, captaining rosters across three orgs. Drafted playbooks, called mid-round adjustments, debugged team chemistry under tournament pressure. If you've ever shipped a fix at 2 a.m. with a crowd watching — we use the same skill tree.

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EVIL GENIUSES
SEATTLE · 2023–24
Tier-1 NA roster.
Captain.
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NOUNS
REMOTE · 2024–25
Community-backed org.
IGL / Captain.
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TEAM CANADA
NATIONAL · 2024–25
Represented Canada internationally.
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» PINNED TO THE WALL: Currently open to Senior Backend, Senior Full-Stack, AI Engineer, or Tech Lead roles. Also accepting "professional gamer."
JESSICA NGO
Senior Backend Engineer  ·  AI safety infra, async pipelines, LLM red-teaming.
Vancouver, BC  ·  ~9 years engineering  ·  Open to senior backend / infra / AI-safety roles.

// SUMMARY

Senior backend engineer based in Vancouver. Currently building an LLM pentesting / AI red-team platform at Alltrue.ai — distributed batch pipelines, async Redis queues, retry & race-condition hardening, probing customer models against OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS attack patterns. Before that, five years shipping bioinformatics software used worldwide in cancer diagnosis. Published contributing author in Cell, primary author in Nature Scientific Reports. Also the part you'll remember: 2.5 years (2022–2025) as a professional Counter-Strike player and team captain for Evil Geniuses, Nouns, and Team Canada. Gamer + builder, all in one.

// EXPERIENCE

Backend Software Developer Mar 2025 – Present
Alltrue.ai · Vancouver, BC
Professional Esports Athlete · Team Captain Aug 2022 – Mar 2025
Evil Geniuses · Nouns · Team Canada
Software Developer Jun 2018 – Jan 2023
Imagia Canexia Health · Vancouver, BC
Software Developer May 2017 – Dec 2017
Shah Lab · BC Cancer Research Centre
Research Assistant May 2016 – Jul 2016
Pio Lab · Simon Fraser University

// SELECTED PROJECTS

LLM PENTESTING PLATFORM

AI red-team platform probing customer LLMs against OWASP LLM Top 10 + MITRE ATLAS attack patterns. 3-service redesign, distributed batch workers, async Redis queues with exponential-backoff-&-jitter retry. Shipped 30+ correctness fixes; multilingual coverage.

Python · Redis · SQLAlchemy · AWS · Bedrock · OWASP

CLINICAL ASSAY PORTAL

Web application rendering cancer-diagnostics assay results as clinician-friendly PDFs. Ran in production for labs worldwide.

Python · Django · PostgreSQL · PDF

BIOINFORMATICS PIPELINE OPS

Observability + optimization layer on a production bioinformatics pipeline. -35% execution time end-to-end.

Python · AWS · Observability

GENOMICS DATA PLATFORM (α)

Event-driven pipelines moving terabytes of genomics data across cloud + on-prem. Shipped alpha of a custom data-management platform with GUI + API.

Python · Event-driven · Hybrid cloud

// ESPORTS

Evil Geniuses
Seattle · 2023–24
Tier-1 NA roster. Captain.
Nouns Esports
Remote · 2024–25
Community-backed org. IGL / Captain.
Team Canada
National · 2022–25
Represented Canada at international events.

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