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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

San Jose, California, United States

Palo Alto, California, United States

- Developer on Customer Engagement Research and Development Team- Full stack contributions to the Bridge Framework; an integration framework that harnesses the power of SAP BTP in MS Teams- Lead on automation for the configuration of the Bridge Framework; this includes automation for Azure and BTP Resources, as well as deployment- Researched and developed personalized assistants that use LLMs to generate code specific to SAP such as CAP and ABAP- Lead on natural language to SQL application that utilizes GPT and vector embeddings

Participated in a senior capstone project in collaboration with Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD), focusing on the development of a novel deep learning strategy to enhance the prediction of pharmacological properties of candidate drugs and streamline discovery efforts.- Contributed to the research and development of graph generative machine learning models for molecule generation using PyTorch- Constructed a feature engineering and evaluation pipeline leveraging tools such as NumPy, Pandas, and RdKit- Built a "neighbor generation" system that allows users to select a molecular core, enabling them to preserve the key components of the original molecule and generate a new molecule (the neighbor) with comparatively enhanced the chemical properties to the original molecule

Contributed to a serverless API by writing Lambda handlers and DynamoDB access patterns, in addition to associated unit tests and Postman collection updatesAided in the design and configuration of microservices that utilize AWS Services such as Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQSWrote a systems test suite via a combination of AWS Lambda functions and Step Functions

Primarily a react native front-end developer, specializing in screen and component design, as well as overall UI updatesAssisted in back-end and database development through the usage of redux and firebaseAdapted to tasks in an agile development environment

Built custom memory allocators in C/C++ to better control memory usage when using SPIN model checker Created shared memory objects in C/C++ in order to share the state of memory between files such that SPIN could run the program and then replay its stateResearched alternative tools to the SPIN model checker for file system verification, such as Modist, NuSMV, and CADP

Claremont, California, Usa

Prepared mitochondrial samples of Drosophila and ran citrate synthase, bradford, and protein degradation assays on the samples, analyzing protein degradation in the mitochondriaInvestigated the effects of overexpression of protein degradation in the mitochondria of Drosophila by performing lifespans Examined the difference in protein degradation of Drosophila as aging occurs