Austin.Chen
Software Engineer · B.S. Computer Science @ Georgia Tech.Seeking Summer 2027 SWE internships.
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About me
I'm a Computer Science student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, minoring in Mathematics and concentrating in Artificial Intelligence and Information Internetworks. I grew up in Akron, Ohio, and transferred to Georgia Tech after a year studying Computer Engineering at Purdue.
My internships have been a tour of the stack: AI automation pipelines at Geotab, platform modernization and CVE remediation at AT&T, IoT lab automation, and a reproducible PyTorch research pipeline. I'm comfortable moving between Python services, TypeScript front ends, and the CI/CD plumbing that ties them together.
Outside the editor I climb, but I'm just as into fashion, food, and film: vintage pieces, a good meal, and a movie worth arguing about. I travel whenever I can, and I'm finally trying to read more, so book recommendations are always welcome.
Seeking Summer 2027 SWE internships.
Field experience
- 01
AT&T
Software Engineer Intern, Technology Development Program
Jun. 2026 to Aug. 2026
Atlanta, GA- Eliminated live-system dependency for Softphone unit tests by mapping 13 service resources to 19 downstream operations, then building a Java mock harness of 38 evidence-classified fixtures driving 19 scenario-test classes across 55 modeled scenarios.
- Surfaced a $380M annual retention opportunity across 5,800 stores by prototyping an agentic AI workflow that flags anomalous accounts via z-score detection and ranks explainable talking points per shift.
- 02
Geotab
Software Engineer Intern
Jan. 2026 to May 2026
Atlanta, GA- Reduced manual workflow time by 30% by building and deploying AI automation pipelines using Python, designing reusable prompt templates and evaluation frameworks adopted across 3 team projects.
- Surfaced 10+ viable automation candidates by analyzing patterns across 500+ support cases, initiating pipelines that cut average case resolution time by 25%.
- 03
MATRIX Lab
Lab Automation Software Engineer
Aug. 2024 to Dec. 2025
Atlanta, GA- Increased lab throughput by 15% by architecting a Python-based IoT monitoring solution that improved equipment utilization tracking by 83%, enabling predictive maintenance and eliminating scheduling conflicts.
- Streamlined researcher onboarding by building a centralized knowledge base with documentation for 10+ REST API integrations, cutting onboarding time by 50%.
- 04
SIPLab
Software Engineer Intern
Apr. 2025 to Aug. 2025
Atlanta, GA- Reduced experimental iteration time by 40% by building a reproducible Python data pipeline (NumPy, Matplotlib, Snakemake) that fully automated data ingestion for 3 researchers.
- Improved signal classification accuracy by 18% by building a PyTorch processing pipeline to train and evaluate models on 10K+ experimental speech samples.
Selected works
AI Prototyping Instructor
Full-stack RAG conversational assistant
- Deployed a serverless RAG application on Vercel, architecting a Next.js backend to orchestrate Pinecone vector search and stream responses to a React UI.
- Achieved 94% retrieval accuracy by implementing iterative knowledge-base refinement via query log analysis, with an 80%+ deferral rate on out-of-scope queries.
- Python
- Next.js
- Pinecone
- Azure OAuth
- React
- Vercel
Crypto Trading Engine
Trading engine across multiple exchanges
- Built the core of a cryptocurrency trading engine in Python that connects to several major exchanges at once, aggregating live order book data and funding rates behind one interface.
- Implemented unified order placement and cancellation, real time position and PnL tracking, a universal symbol mapper, and historical order book persistence for backtesting.
- Python
- TimescaleDB
- PostgreSQL
- AWS S3
- Parquet
Makerspace Dashboard
Real-time machine telemetry dashboard
- Developed and deployed a full-stack dashboard using Next.js and React, integrating 3DPrinterOS and SUMS APIs to visualize real-time data for 20+ machines.
- Cut widget load times by 34% by implementing server-side rendering (SSR) and incremental static regeneration (ISR) for async data fetching across 5+ dashboard views.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- 3DPrinterOS
- SUMS
ScribeAgent
AI medical transcription platform · HackGT
- Built a full stack medical transcription platform at HackGT (FastAPI and Next.js) that turns clinical dictation into structured SOAP notes, ICD-10 billing codes, and prescriptions.
- Streamed live transcription over WebSockets with a file upload fallback, taking raw audio to structured clinical data end to end.
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- Python
- TypeScript
- WebSockets
Vyta
Social fitness platform
- Optimized activity tracking using indexed relational models and Django signals, reducing average query latency by 37%.
- Architected a modular Django multi-app platform with 5 integrated services, leveraging Google's Gemini API to generate personalized workouts for 50+ users.
- Django
- Python
- SQLite
- JavaScript
- Gemini API
Real-Time Safety Monitoring
Edge computer-vision PPE detection
- Designed and deployed a computer vision safety system on Raspberry Pi edge devices, achieving 84% mAP in real-time PPE detection by fine-tuning YOLOv8n.
- Implemented an automated alerting pipeline to notify lab staff of safety violations in real-time, reducing incident response time by 60%.
- Python
- OpenCV
- Raspberry Pi
- YOLOv8n
HTTP Server
HTTP/1.1 server in pure Java
- Built an HTTP/1.1 server from scratch in pure Java with no frameworks: raw TCP sockets, request parsing, routing, and static file serving.
- Implemented the request and response lifecycle by hand, from status lines and headers to CRLF framing, to learn the protocol beneath the frameworks.
- Java
- Maven
- TCP Sockets
GBA Snake
Snake game for the Game Boy Advance
- Wrote a complete Snake game in C for the Game Boy Advance, programming directly against the hardware: VRAM, button registers, and a fixed step game loop.
- Implemented continuous movement, collision detection, growth and scoring, and a title, gameplay, win, and game over state machine on small 4×4 pixel tiles.
- C
- Game Boy Advance
- Makefile
Pennybox
Local-first, plain-text personal finance toolkit
- Kept financial records vendor-neutral and git-diffable via a zero-runtime-dependency Python package parsing Markdown ledgers into typed models, verified by 18 tests across parser, store, importer, and report paths.
- Removed cross-tool reconciliation by collapsing 3 incompatible bank export schemas into one transaction model behind a 6-command CLI with JSON output.
- Python
- pytest
- CLI
- Markdown
Stack & specs
Languages
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Java
- SQL
- C++
- C
- C#
- HTML/CSS
Frameworks & Libraries
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Django
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Angular
- Tailwind CSS
- pytest
- JUnit
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Matplotlib
- Snakemake
Developer Tools & Platforms
- Git
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- Vercel
- Cloudflare
- Linux
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Maven
- REST APIs
- WebSockets
- PostgreSQL
- TimescaleDB
- MySQL
- SQLite
- MongoDB
- Raspberry Pi
- Jira
AI / ML
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- scikit-learn
- OpenCV
- YOLO
- Pinecone
- LangChain
- RAG
- LLM prompt engineering
- anomaly detection
On rotation
Top Artists · last 4 weeks
liveHeavy Rotation · Spotify
livelatest
Wallflower
Dominic Fike
Beware
Deftones
tower of memories
ivri
Laputa
Panchiko
Man of War
Radiohead
Rotten Apple
Alice In Chains
chained to a cloud
Slowdive
Sextape
Deftones
Favorite Films · Letterboxd
pinned
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
Call Me by Your Name
2017
Fight Club
1999
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012
Recently Watched · Letterboxd
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