Xinyi / Vicky Xiang

About me

Hi, my name is Xinyi / Vicky, I am a masters student at UW's CLMS program.

This site is a repository of my past experiences, projects, and notes.

Data integration

Experience with query tuning, schema design, and ETL processes. Built and operated distributed systems with web and networking services at large scale.
Language Engineering

Familiarity with AI frameworks and tools, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch and scikit-learn.
Mobile apps

Developed and deployed tools to manage infrastructure, track and optimize database performance on iOS with a focus on healthcare, medical and financial protocols.
Info Tech

Enhanced network services and devops practices continuously to improve CI/CD pipelines and cloud operations with extensive knowledge of implementing automation for employee lifecycle processes.

University of Washington
Sept 2023 — present
MS student @ UW CLMS.
University of Washington
Sept 2019 — Mar 2023
Dual degree in Statistics and Linguistics, with a concentration track on Computational Linguistics.
Johns Hopkins University
Jun - Aug 2018
Engineering Innovation is a college-level, summer engineering program.

Software Dev Engineer @ Amazon
Oct 2024 - Present
Bioinformatics Analyst @ Boston Children's Hospital - Harvard Medical School
Jun — Sept 2023
Designed and developed a synchronous analytical web app used by PIs and medical professionals. Led the database integration with RedCap, Amazon EC2 to support clinical and protected health data management. Examined and processed 15+ categories of child rare diseases data and respective genetic testing in 50,000+ entries.
Software Engineer @ Dataminr
Jun - Sept 2022
Built new architectures of the pipeline system to monitor crisis response and risk mitigation information. Partitioned, transformed cloud platform data with SQL, Amazon S3 and snowflake. Designed SQL schema that presents assembled, high-throughput JSON data; lowered latency by 65%.
Data Engineer @ Tsinghua Tongfang
Jun - Sept 2019
Built classification model over vehicle types, and implemented ResNet-50, CNN with caffe, Tensorflow on highway emergency detection. Worked on the revision paper Real-time Traffic Congestion Detection with SIGHTA Regression Network, presented at the 2019 IEEE 9th International Conference on Electronics Information and Emergency Communication (ICEIEC).