Experience

Verily

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Present

• Test Engineer

  • May 2017 - Jan 2022

  - Drove verification for an internally-developed LIMS web app to enable science at scale, including processing COVID-19 samples in a CLIA lab at the height of the pandemic- Drove verification for a web app and API product that use machine learning to detect diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema in retinal images - Drove verification for a mobile app used in a study to identify digital biomarkers of depression- Automated smoke tests for Project Baseline web app in order to enable recruitment and management of participants in clinical and wellness studies



Illumina

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer II

  • Jun 2016 - May 2017

  - Wrote automated test suite for a product to store and transfer patient data in an encrypted manner to align with HIPAA standards; resulted in 100% test automation - Wrote automated test suite for internal-facing software services- Wrote and maintained documentation about testing efforts and product releases to maintain ISO certification status- Load-test software using JMeter and analyze data using R

• Software Engineer I

  • Jan 2015 - Jun 2016

  - Wrote automated test suite for new customer-facing project linking all of Illumina’s software products and data- Wrote automated test suite and validated an automated data ingestion pipeline linking MySQL, HDFS, and other data sources to produce clinically actionable information for customers- Qualified a product to take in a patient's tumor mutations and return list of FDA-approved medications corresponding to their mutations

• Reagent Process Engineering Intern/Contractor

  • Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

  - Devised and tested ways to optimize and control quality of reagent manufacturing processes on existing equipment - Designed and conducted experiments to validate existing and potential equipment and protocols- Documented instruments to be integrated into manufacturing lines- Wrote and tested program to automatically fill reagents on liquid handling robot in a workflow with 100% inspection



UCSD Engler Lab

• UCSD

• Senior Design Capstone Project Engineer

  • Aug 2013 - Jun 2014

  - Developed a polarized light microscope attachment for smart phones for medical diagnostics - Presented progress reports and technical reports to supervisor weekly - Nominated by peers to present work at 15th Annual Inter-UC Bioengineering Conference in UC Irvine - Developed a polarized light microscope attachment for smart phones for medical diagnostics - Presented progress reports and technical reports to supervisor weekly - Nominated by peers to present work at 15th Annual Inter-UC Bioengineering Conference in UC Irvine



UCSD Schmid-Schonbein Lab

• UCSD

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - Jun 2014

  - Researched scientific literature about the gastrointestinal (GI) comorbidities of children with autistic spectrum disorders in order to investigate the gut injury mechanism theory of autism - Maintained detailed documentation of weekly meetings with project coordinators and superiors - Collected and processed human samples for studies about breast milk storage and diet effects on GI development in infants - Optimized and conducted cell-based cytotoxicity assays that use blood cell isolation and flow cytometry



A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research

• Singapore
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• A*STAR Research Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  - Conducted experiments involving bacterial transfection of E. coli and P. pastoris, protein purification, and plate reader-based assays to test various xylanases for use in industrial xylan degradation - Communicated with peers and supervisors in a multi-national environment while respecting cultural differences and displaying professionalism - Conducted experiments involving bacterial transfection of E. coli and P. pastoris, protein purification, and plate reader-based assays to test various xylanases for use in industrial xylan degradation - Communicated with peers and supervisors in a multi-national environment while respecting cultural differences and displaying professionalism



UCSD Subramani Lab

• UCSD

• Lab Assistant

  • Sep 2011 - Jun 2012

  - Managed pipette tip and chemical inventory for lab of ~14 researchers - Prepared sterile media and instruments for microbiology research use - Shadowed scientists to learn about experiments in the discovery of autophagy mechanisms in S. cerevisae - Managed pipette tip and chemical inventory for lab of ~14 researchers - Prepared sterile media and instruments for microbiology research use - Shadowed scientists to learn about experiments in the discovery of autophagy mechanisms in S. cerevisae