Open to software engineering internships, backend roles, and full-stack product teams.

Chris Shen

Full-stack developer and backend-focused software engineer

I like the engineering work behind useful software: data models, APIs, performance constraints, deployment details, and interfaces that make complex systems feel approachable.

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Projects with real engineering weight

Backend architecture, internal tooling, machine learning, research automation, and frontend work that shipped to real users.

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Full-stack AI product developer

Built an AI presentation coach that listens, watches, reacts, asks follow-up questions, and generates actionable feedback from speech, visual, and audio signals.

Node.jsJavaScriptGemini APIOpenAI APIWeb Speech APIWebcam APIs
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2025-2026

Backend and architecture lead

Designed a backend architecture for prompt workflows using graph queries, relational storage, and API layers built for iteration.

FastAPIGraphQLNeo4jSupabasePostgreSQLPython
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Full-stack/backend developer

Built workflow support for internal agricultural operations with APIs, database-backed tools, and clearer operational visibility.

PostgreSQLREST APIsPythonTypeScriptInternal tools
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ML/data engineer

Built a data pipeline and modeling workflow for large-scale property assessment, with attention to fairness, evaluation, and interpretability.

PythonpandasNumPyscikit-learnJupyterFairness analysis
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Current direction

Currently building and interested in

AI products that combine deterministic signals with LLM feedback loops
Graph-backed applications with FastAPI, GraphQL, Neo4j, and Supabase
ML systems that make model behavior, fairness, and data quality easier to inspect
Research automation that reduces manual cleanup without losing human judgment

Timeline

Recent work arc

Now

Backend-heavy product systems

Building graph-backed workflows, API layers, and data-rich full-stack interfaces.

2025

Operational tools and ML pipelines

Worked across internal APIs, PostgreSQL workflows, large records, and fairness-oriented model analysis.

2024

Research automation and AI agents

Used Python automation and reinforcement learning experiments to support analysis and learning systems.

2023

Real-user full-stack deployment

Shipped a Django marketplace for a school community and learned from real user feedback.