I am a trilingual Software Engineer with a Computer Science BS from Harvey Mudd College, specializing in artificial intelligence, information security, and data science. My professional experience lies in developing software, hardware, and protocols across diverse disciplines, ranging from bioinformatics to astrophysics. I am motivated to further develop my skills as a software engineer to be a part of the next generation of leaders in software engineering to address some of the most significant scientific challenges today.
Cumulative GPA: 4.51 (Weighted)
AP Scholar with Distinction
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
(Dean's List)
Concentration in Economics
Major GPA: 3.67 (Honors)
Relevant Coursework:
Computer Science and Mathematics: Algorithms, Artificial
Intelligence, Computability and Logic, Computer Systems, Computer Vision, Data Structures and Program
Development, Differential Equations, Multi-variable Calculus, Natural Language Processing, Probability
and Statistics, Software Development
Programming: ASM, Bash, C, C++, HTML5 & CSS, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Python, R, Racket, Ruby
Expertise: Agile Methodologies, Application Scaling, Big Data Analytics, Command Lines, Cloud Computing, Database Infrastructure, DevOps Practices, Security Compliance, Software Development Lifecycle Tools, Version Control
LATEX, SQL Server, Docker, MongoDB, React Native, AWS EC2 | S3 | DynamoDB | Lambda | IAM | SageMaker, Adobe Photoshop | Premiere Pro, Microsoft PowerPoint | Word | Excel
English and Japanese (Bilingual Proficiency), Chinese (Professional Proficiency — HSK VI certificate)
Judicial Council: Worked as one of the core members of the Student Government
Head of Human Rights Coalition: Gave students access to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty Resources and raised awareness of pressing social justice issues
Tutor at San Antonio Elementary School: Taught local elementary school students math and chemistry
Freshman Prefect: Worked closely with dorm head to oversee the health and well-being of incoming first-year students and helped manage the dormitory
Honor Board: Elected to serve as the senior representative for the college’s student conduct system
Entrepreneurship Course: Enrolled in an entrepreneurship course to cultivate my interest in entrepreneurship through exposure to the success stories of guest speakers and studying cover topics of interest, such as innovative products, funding, intellectual property, customers (discovery, validation, & creation), sales, marketing, cash flow, product launch, etc.
Clubs: Pan-Asian Identity and Culture Group, Club Tennis
Produced an automated tool for Google Ads by fine-tuning a GPT-2 XL machine learning model on internal
advertisement campaign data over the past decade.
Developing a production-grade Dockerized Flask application with PostgreSQL 15.1, Gunicorn, and Nginx to be
managed in AWS ECR and deployed as an AWS Sagemaker endpoint with automatic scaling.
Creating a Python web scraping program using Beautiful Soup to assist the firm in downloading textual data
from client campaigns to enrich internal data and fine-tune ChatGPT2 effective.
Click on the button to see the Docker Flask application
Designing a PostgreSQL 15.1 processing and archival system with a parallelized, high-throughput
processing infrastructure to store photometrically refined light curve data, employing a memory-optimized
version of Q3C, a sky indexing scheme programmed in C.
Equipping the archival system with a photometry data reduction pipeline, API, and a GUI to enable cone
searches, data filtering, and periodogram/ other statistical computations.
Developing a development and production-ready Debian 11 Docker setup for a modular Django application that
employs Celery and Redis for task management and a Gunicorn WSGI HTTP server as a reverse proxy and load
balancer.
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Led the development efforts to design and implement an AWS data flow ecosystem that improved the
company’s ability to perform cost-effective and efficient processing of Big Data containing RNA and other
functional products.
Took leadership in the contract with Toshiba Digital Solutions to employ their Simulated Bifurcation
Machine+ to obtain an optimal solution to a combinatorial problem involving predicting allosteric
regulatory sites for proteins.
Created a Tkinter GUI framework to enhance the discovery of gene diagnostic agents and defined the
product’s value proposition to align with the market needs of business partners: RIKEN, top Japanese
universities, and significant diagnostic drug development firms.
1. Publications involving my work
2.GitHub repository containing a ML model for prognostic prediction as a
follow-up study to a multicenter retrospective survey of acute exacerbation of interstitial pneumonia with
fibrosis
Oversaw team using Jira to manage Clinic project to visualize spatial genomics for biology and
translational medicine (PM tasks: activity & resource planning, team & time & project risk management,
progress monitoring & updates).
Developed a data pipeline to analyze high-dimensional spatial genomic data from seqFISH+ experiments and
configured an appropriate file format (Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs) for storing data in AWS S3.
Worked with Cai Lab scientists and engineers to provide flexibility to parse genomic data to discover new
biological insights, such as identifying phenotypic differences between gene expression targets.
Developed an AWS Amplify React interface that allows researchers to access, visualize, and analyze the
data.
Click on the button below for Poster showcasing the work our team accomplished over the course of Clinic
Led a group of GCI Fellows to assist them with their Glocal Service Project, GCI’s flagship program,
where 28 students worldwide are tasked to create an advocacy campaign around select non-profit
organizations. My responsibilities were to employ my communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
to assist students in exploring and implementing solutions to global issues that transcend
socio-politico-economic boundaries.
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Evaluated potential investment performance of more than 30 start-ups after hosting their pitch deck. Created technical and financial reports on Chinese start-ups to assess possibilities of investment.
Worked on these issues: International Justice, North Korean and Syrian Refugees, LGBTQ, Women’s and
Children’s Rights, Migrant’s Rights.
Created a service project and helped create a documentary to raise awareness for LGBTQ members in the
Japanese community.
Assisted and presented at Berlin Human Rights Watch Annual Summit.
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Organized a hackathon inviting developers to integrate new decentralized security features, moderated
several international blockchain events, and served as a trilingual interpreter (Japanese, English,
Mandarin) at the events above.
Click on the button below for organizational details of the hackathon
Developed a full-stack hardware cold wallet in C for EOS and stabilized the CYBEX crypto exchange
platform.
Developed Telegram bots in Python to improve customer experience, crypto transactions, and anti-spam
software.
Click on the button below for the GitHub repository containing Telegram applications I developed for CYBEX
Developed Amazon Alexa service using Cube Wealth API, allowing customers to access personal information
about their financial situation in Cube Wealth (For example, mutual fund worth, money in savings/checking
account).
Click on the button below for the GitHub repository containing the Amazon Alexa Service I developed for
Cube
Developed in Python and Java to help improve the WorkIndia job search platform to connect Indian blue-collar workers with potential employers.
Specialized in merging art and technology by helping to create an immersive artwork that responds to the movement of visitors as they walk through the space. Served on these teams: front-end development (HTML, JavaScript), visual arts, marketing, event organization.
