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I'm a first-generation college graduate and a software engineer with over a year of hands-on experience in full-stack development and scripting. I enjoy building software that is not only functional but also reliable and scalable. One of my proudest achievements was contributing to a project at Boston Children’s Hospital that helped secure renewed contracts and additional funding for the team. I love working in environments where I can learn and contribute meaningfully. Whether leading a scrum team or optimizing workflows, I am committed to growing alongside a supportive team and continuing to develop my skills and expertise.…I'm a first-generation college graduate and a software engineer with over a year of hands-on experience in full-stack development and scripting. I enjoy building software that is not only functional but also reliable and scalable. One of my proudest achievements was contributing to a project at Boston Children’s Hospital that helped secure renewed contracts and additional funding for the team. I love working in environments where I can learn and contribute meaningfully. Whether leading a scrum team or optimizing workflows, I am committed to growing alongside a supportive team and continuing to develop my skills and expertise.

Gavin Zhang

Full Stack Developer, Developer, Programmer, +2

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I'm a first-generation college graduate and a software engineer with over a year of hands-on experience in full-stack development and scripting. I enjoy building software that is not only functional but also reliable and scalable. One of my proudest achievements was contributing to a project at Boston Children’s Hospital that helped secure renewed contracts and additional funding for the team. I love working in environments where I can learn and contribute meaningfully. Whether leading a scrum team or optimizing workflows, I am committed to growing alongside a supportive team and continuing to develop my skills and expertise.…I'm a first-generation college graduate and a software engineer with over a year of hands-on experience in full-stack development and scripting. I enjoy building software that is not only functional but also reliable and scalable. One of my proudest achievements was contributing to a project at Boston Children’s Hospital that helped secure renewed contracts and additional funding for the team. I love working in environments where I can learn and contribute meaningfully. Whether leading a scrum team or optimizing workflows, I am committed to growing alongside a supportive team and continuing to develop my skills and expertise.

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I’m a first-generation college graduate and a software engineer with over a year of hands-on experience in full-stack development and scripting. I enjoy building software that is not only functional but also reliable and scalable. One of my proudest achievements was contributing to a project at Boston Children’s Hospital that helped secure renewed contracts and additional funding for the team.

I love working in environments where I can learn and contribute meaningfully. Whether leading a scrum team or optimizing workflows, I am committed to growing alongside a supportive team and continuing to develop my skills and expertise.

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Javanese

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Work Experience

Software Engineer Intern (Data Platform) at Flare Therapeutics

October 1, 2024 - July 14, 2025

Contributed as second author on a 2024 AARC poster related to the company founding drug. Optimized workflow to save $5,000 annually in compute costs by parallelizing file I/O with multiprocessing and shell pipelines, significantly reducing EC2 runtimes. Developed Python and R scripts to automate nightly analysis of large data files, reducing manual turnaround time from 6 hours to 4 hours. Improved CI and documentation by adding GitHub Actions tests, linting tools, and a full Sphinx documentation site, decreasing pull-request review time by 30%.

Software Engineer at Boston Children’s Hospital × BU Spark!

December 31, 2023 - July 14, 2025

Key collaborator who helped secure continued funding and collaboration by presenting the project at a BU Demo Day attended by over 500 people. Served as Scrum Master for a 3-engineer team, maintaining 2-week sprints with a 95% story completion rate. Fixed session-loss bugs in the frontend and increased returning user rate by 20% by implementing persistent React/TypeScript state with Strapi and MongoDB. Developed a scalable Node.js/Express decision-tree API enabling ALS patients to self-navigate treatment paths through a clinical interface.