BigHat Biosciences
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Software Engineer (Co-op)

Jan 2025 Present

  • Audit-Trail UI — React + TypeScript front-end + Python/Falcon API on DynamoDB; record look-ups now take seconds for 35 + scientists.
  • Maintained a serverless event pipeline (AWS Lambda + Kinesis) that guarantees loss-less, traceable LIMS events.
  • Authored hands-free CI/CD: BuildSpec workflows build, test & publish pinned Docker images in < 5 min (vs. 30 min manual).
  • Standardised 80 + Pydantic/SQLAlchemy models on a common ORM base, trimming boilerplate 5 % and easing audits.
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UCSF – Andrej Šali Lab
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Student Research Intern

Mar 2023 Sep 2023

  • Automated GPU scheduling for 200 + MD runs, saving ≈ 10 engineer-hours/week.
  • Built RMSD, trajectory & pair-distance pipelines to validate every simulation.
  • Developed Markov State Models to reveal transitions in disordered proteins.
  • Integrated FRET data into MD workflows, boosting simulation fidelity.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Biological Systems & Engineering

Student Backend Engineer

Aug 2022 Feb 2023

  • Co-designed an OO retrosynthesis algorithm that generates PKS sequences for target molecules.
  • Upgraded ClusterCAD backend (Python + Django) and integrated the new algorithm.
  • Algorithm adopted by multiple LBNL teams in their web tools.
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Geopogo

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022 Sep 2022

  • Prototyped a MagicLeap console app in Unity for one-handed 3-D model interaction.
  • Implemented a gravity-gun ray-casting system inspired by G-Mod.
  • Prototype adopted by firms to demo architectural models in mixed reality.
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Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Student Researcher

Jun 2019 Aug 2019

  • Built a mass-spectrometry peptide-matching pipeline, dramatically accelerating MS-2 identifications.
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