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gong kai

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Software Engineer & Machine Learning Engineer focused on production GenAI, secure backends, and scalable data pipelines.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can build secure, high-performance backends and production GenAI systems—turning messy data into reliable, privacy-aware products with measurable impact and strong engineering practices.

I’m a results-driven Software Engineer & Machine Learning Engineer with 2+ years of production experience delivering full-stack development, distributed data engineering, and applied AI/ML systems.

At UCIPT, I partner with healthcare and research teams to build mobile monitoring and public-health analytics, including a React Native patient-monitoring app with secure GPS mobility capture, reliable sync, and authenticated serverless REST APIs for high-throughput ingestion.

I also build large-scale modeling pipelines over 2TB+ mobility data, turning noisy GPS traces into stays and behavioral features, then modeling outcomes with XGBoost and regression while adding NLP workflows with spaCy, NLTK, and transformer embeddings.

Beyond analytics, I architect RAG + fine-tuned TTS experiences that preserve privacy while improving responsiveness through streaming—alongside production ML APIs and monitoring from my retail recommendation and visual search engineering work.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

UC
Current

Software Development Engineer

UCIPT

Jun 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Developed a React Native patient-monitoring mobility app and serverless REST APIs using AWS for secure GPS mobility capture and reliable data ingestion. Also built AI/speech applications including a privacy-focused RAG pipeline with fine-tuned TTS for personalized voice playback.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Chicago logoUC

University of Chicago

Master of Science in Statistics, Statistics

2022 - 2024

Grade: GPA: 3.8

Master of Science in Statistics at the University of Chicago (GPA: 3.8) from Oct. 2022 to Jan. 2024.

University of Washington logoUW

University of Washington

Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Computer Science, Statistics and Computer Science

2018 - 2022

Grade: GPA: 3.7

Bachelor of Science in Statistics & Computer Science at the University of Washington (GPA: 3.7) from Sep. 2018 to Apr. 2022.

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