The destination is but a final breath;the journey is the song that sings you there.
4th-Year CS Student@UWaterloo
S26 SWE@DatabricksSpark Streaming
F26 SWE@GoogleGCloud AI
Founding Eng@Expertise.ai$1M+ ARR
Research@CUHK
Seeking 2027New Grad Roles
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Thinker & Tinkerer

I am Richard Shuai, a builder and innovator. I craft impactful solutions across infra, cloud, and AI.

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.

Where I have built

Internships, startups, competitions, and communities.

Awards and  Honors.

National scholarships, global competition medals, and academic excellence.

Continuous Growth

Pushing boundaries.

National Distinctions

$80,000 Schulich Leader National Scholarship Offer
$80,000 Centennial Leader National Scholarship Offer
$20,000 René Descartes National Scholarship (UW)
Cenovus Energy STEM National Scholarship
2x Gold Medal in Skills Canada National Competition
WorldSkills Americas Team Canada Competitor

Competitions

Champion and Perfect Score in Fermat Contest
18/20597 and Honourable Mention in Euclid Math Contest
Winner of HackThe6ix & HackWestern
Perfect Score in ACSL (I5 Division)
Top 5% in LeetCode Coding Contests
Distinction in Canadian Computing Competition (Senior)
National Top Score in Purple Comet Team Contest

By the numbers

$200K+

Scholarships offered

15+

Math & CS Distinctions

30+

Awards earned

Creative  builds.

Hackathon wins, open-source projects, and experiments.

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HackThe6ix Winner

OPTimism

A platform that makes vision therapy fun and accessible through gamified eye exercises and real-time habit tracking.

React · Flask · GCP · Docker · Arduino

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HackWestern Winner

Harbor.ed

An empathetic web app that reads facial expressions to deliver supportive, encouraging messages when users are feeling down.

Python · OpenCV · AWS · Cohere · MongoDB

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DeltaHacks Winner

Symphonic

An AI composer that dynamically generates background music to perfectly match the emotional flow of your video content.

Python · Flask · GCP · Cloudflare · HuggingFace

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Acoustic Recipe

A completely hands-free cooking assistant that lets you search through millions of recipes using just your voice.

React · NodeJS · Alan AI · MUI · APIs

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Markov Shakespeare

A fun machine learning experiment that writes its own classical literature after reading over 10,000 historic texts.

Python · Flask · React · SQLite · Pandas

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Chatr

A safe-space chat application that uses machine learning to actively detect and prevent toxic messages in real-time.

React · Firebase · TensorFlow · MUI

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Codinterest

An educational platform designed to inspire younger students to dive into the world of algorithms and competitive programming.

PHP · Laravel · MySQL · C++ · REST APIs

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Study Buddy

A smart studying tool where you can snap a picture of your homework and instantly get answers and explanations.

React · TensorFlow · Tesseract

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Breader Together

A social cooking community where friends can take on weekly culinary challenges and share their creations.

Python · FastAPI · NodeJS · Cohere · GCP

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WikiLearn

An educational tool that digests dense Wikipedia articles and turns them into bite-sized, easy-to-understand summaries.

Python · Flask · React · NodeJS · Tailwind

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Site II Collection

A nostalgic collection of classic web games built from scratch, including Flappy Bird, 2048, and Frogger.

JavaScript · P5JS · Python · NodeJS · Bash

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Melo

A music discovery tool that lets you find songs not just by artist, but by searching specific musical notes and melodies.

NodeJS · React · JSON · Bootstrap

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Sustainability

A travel companion that tracks your carbon emissions and ranks your eco-friendly choices on a global leaderboard.

React · Google Maps · R · NodeJS

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Covid Tracker

A real-time data visualization dashboard that tracked global Covid-19 cases during the height of the pandemic.

React · CovidAPI · MUI

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Travel Advisor

A comprehensive travel guide for finding the absolute best restaurants, hotels, and hidden attractions worldwide.

React · RapidAPI · MUI