Richard Mah, Phd Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Developed and maintained microservices in two regional Kubernetes clusters for an upgraded blockchain tracker and associated APIs for the ICON Foundation
• Maintained regional Kubernetes clusters hosting microservices; deployed with ArgoCD, ingress with Ambassador Edge Stack, and service mesh with Consul and Envoy
• Productionized an arbitration bot to execute trades on the Balanced Dex

San Francisco, CA, US

• Created a Python ETL package for transaction & token analytics for the ICON blockchain to be deployed on Airflow
• Developed and maintained blockchain data microservices running on Kubernetes, powered by Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and FastAPI in partnership with the ICON Foundation

San Francisco, CA, US

• Created Terraform modules to deploy infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean as both native instances and as Kubernetes clusters for load balanced API endpoints for the Polkadot and Substrate blockchains
• Wrote Terratest automated tests for modules to be used in CircleCI pipelines
• Built a benchmarking suite to optimize blockchain syncing in sentry nodes deployed in autoscaling groups
• Integrated Terraform modules into a Terragrunt deployment framework to support quick and easy deployments of the load balanced endpoints

San Francisco, CA, US

• Implemented a Prometheus/AlertManager-based monitoring platform for a blockchain validation platform
• Leveraged Terraform and Terragrunt to create reproducable deployments of fully configured EC2 instances with supporting networking and permissions infrastructure
• Created and tested alerts used for monitoring and automatic instance redeployment using AlertManager and AWS Lambda
• Used Consul for service discovery between managed AWS EKS and unmanaged EC2 instances

• Collected eye movement and standardized language testing data for ESL bridging program quality assessment of over 300 students
• Cleaned and prepared data for further analysis using Eyelink Data Viewer, R, and Python
• Performed analyses of data using linear mixed effects regression and ensemble learning techniques such as Random Forests in R and Python
• Developed curriculum modifications for English-language which are currently being implemented to improve student outcome scores and undergraduate program retention

• Prepared model contract language for use in provincial sector-wide bargaining
• Prepared and facilitated a series of travelling workshops on topics including current campaigns and bargaining support, public sector bargaining in Ontario, and current political affairs
• Delivered invited talks on university budget analysis, Strategic Mandate Agreements within Ontario, and the current state of Ontario politics
• Development of a toolkit to help member locals navigate the university governance structures, with the aim of introducing model language around procurement policies
• Provided general research support for the sector committee

• Planned and oversaw three years of $1.5M CAD annual budgets
• Recruited and hiring of temporary local staff
• Provided daily management of staff in a collectively bargained work environment, including compliance with and bargaining of staff collective agreement
• Maintained financial regulatory compliance and provided accounting services using QuickBooks

• Managed desktop and high performance computing infrastructure using MS Active Directory for centralized deployments, and implemented reproducible data processing pipelines using Docker
• Provided primary laboratory management and maintenance; trained and supervised undergraduate and graduate students, and led research teams for NIH and NSERC funded grants
• Collected and cleaned data from >100 subjects to develop a normative sample of brain responses to 7 stimulation methods to assess a patient's state of consciousness, which will be integrated into the VoxNeuro clinical.
• Performed analyses using ANOVA, linear mixed effects regression, generalized additive models, and ensemble algorithms in R and Python, resulting in the publication of 2 papers with 4 additional papers forthcoming

Hamilton, Ontario, CA

• Planned and led multiple sections of labs and tutorials for courses such as Introductory Linguistics, Phonetics, and Statistics
• Coordinated and graded examinations for courses of 300+ students
• Lectured on topics such as digital sampling theory, use and interpretation of ANOVA, and EEG for language research

Psycho- and neurolinguistics research into the perception of speech using event related potentials (ERPs).Use of software such as BESA, Presentation, PsyScope and SPSS for experimental data gathering and analysis.

Ottawa, On, CA

• Maintaining lab supplies and chemical stores
• Preparing solutions and samples for teaching labs
• Managing and running storefront for selling supplies

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Science

B.Sc. Hons., Biomedical Sciences, Linguistics