Christopher Chao Email & Phone Number

California, United States

California, United States

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Working on securing the Google Pixel

● Tools and Methods: Python, Tesseract, ocrmypdf, pdfminer.six, PyPDF2 fastapi, httpx, Selenium, JSON● Selected by the founders of QQ Tech to be a founding member of QQ Tech’s product, Lexempla, a SaaSthat focuses on helping customers understand their legal documents by providing our open domain questionand answering service and connecting to lawyers through messaging● Engineered the new product from the ground up by contributing toward end-to-end architecture design andrefining the application user workflows● Developed in-house solutions for preprocessing PDFs and images and use computer vision packages, suchas Google’s Tesseract OCR, to extract data from input documents to generate customized hOCR confidencelevel files in XML/HTML format● Implemented a generic web scraping engine using Selenium to retrieve legal related documents frompublicly available sources● Functioned as a project manager and scrum master to ensure progress of product features are delivered asplanned in Jira system; presented project status in Jira metrics● Authored, maintained, and enforced Confluence pages for proper coding documentation abiding byPEP-257 and PEP-8 standards, including information on unit testing procedures using a combination ofpytest and httpx+fastapi calls, and company-wide convention for the setup and use of PyCharm● Created and updated unit tests for program algorithms to ensure proper functionalities with no regressions,automatically executed by my implementation with GitHub Actions per push to remote repo● Established GitHub pull request and code review protocols for version control of feature,development/integration, stage/QA, and production branches● Built Docker containers and implemented GitOps to deploy services to Google Cloud Run

• Selected by the Chief AI Officer and former Data Science professor to be a founding team member of SKAEL's AI team, focused on building the PageAI architecture and algorithms, concurrently completing Masters program• Designed and implemented an image processing workflow to extract text from images using OpenCV, EasyOCR, and PaddleOCR, which resulted in over 90% accuracy of read texts• Built the OCR workflow and naive regular expression rule-based searching, which conducts field extractions from images and PDFs, in addition to NER, part of speech tagging, and auto fillable PDF fields• Innovated an in-house clustering algorithm to cluster documents based on semantic similarity, which is used by the customer base when sending in documents for scanning• Documented software use cases for new employees, created tutorials and instructions for software such as ngrok (expose local web apps) and insomnia (REST API testing), pycharm (python IDE)• Set up unit testing for algorithms to ensure the code constantly runs smoothly and as intended• Partnered with backend and frontend engineers to set up the data pipelines, and product managers• Utilized github and git for version control of feature, stage, development, and production branches• Tools and Methods: Python, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, regex, spacy, nltk, Agglomerative Clustering

Waltham, Ma, Us

• Part-time employment while pursuing Masters degree in Data Science• Handled MS2 phage control and TaqPath COVID-19 assay solutions used for real-time PCR test for in vitro qualitative detection of nucleic acid from the SARS-CoV-2• Utilized and maintained machinery (Hamilton STAR, BioMicroLab, Tube Capper) for filling, labeling, and kitting COVID-19 test kits, with an average output of 1.5 million test kits per day

Stockton, California, Us

• Assist Professor of Biology with research on evolutionary development of ostracods• Maintain protein sequence data integrity with the use of Galaxy workflow management tool and manipulate (trim, edit, organize) data and integrate external data sources• Identify and select usable data from a provided list of FASTA sequences • Run protein BLAST search with sequence data and compare sequences within NCBI database• Follow workflow protocol for inputting sequences into data collection tools • Build phylogenetic trees for basic helix-loop-helix domains with use of IQ-Tree software• Tools and Methods: Galaxy, IQ-Tree, R language (blastdb), Python, BLAST+

Stockton, California, Us

• Responsible for ensuring the proper compounding, dispensation, review and verification of prescribed medication within regulatory guidelines, company policies and procedures• Support efficient pharmacy workflow and audit inventory management; organize and restock new shipment

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science

Biology, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Certificate, Bioinformatics