Austin.Chen

Software Engineer · B.S. Computer Science @ Georgia Tech.Seeking Summer 2027 SWE internships.
Read all about it
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, test infrastructure and an agentic AI prototype 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 5 exchanges
- Built the core of a cryptocurrency trading engine in Python that connects to 5 exchanges at once (Binance, KuCoin, OKX, Bitmart, and Bybit), 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
claude-sessions
Search, rename, and delete Claude Code sessions
- Filled a gap in Claude Code, which can't delete sessions or search inside old ones, with an fzf picker over local transcripts that resumes, renames, deletes, and full-text searches sessions.
- Kept repeat launches fast with a metadata cache that rereads only changed transcripts, and pinned the undocumented transcript format with 38 pytest tests run in CI on macOS and Linux.
- Python
- fish
- fzf
- ripgrep
- pytest
- GitHub Actions
South-View Gallery
Community photo gallery for a historic cemetery
- Built the React app behind the Historic South-View Preservation Foundation's community gallery: visitors scan a QR code, submit photos, and staff approve them into a public gallery sorted by event or burial.
- Added burial records with per-grave QR codes and printable label sheets, gallery search, and multi-photo upload, all backed by a Google Sheet and Drive folder the Foundation owns, with no servers to run.
- React
- Vite
- Google Apps Script
- Google Sheets
- Gemini API
- GitHub Pages
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
- Google Apps Script
- 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
Prizma
Tamaryn
Home Movies
Vivienne Eastwood
The Sun is Setting
BrokenTeeth
Creation
The Daysleepers
hanataba
Blurred City Lights
Freeze Our Stares
The Meeting Places
The Shore
缺省
She Calls
Slowdive
Favorite Films · Letterboxd
pinnedRecently Watched · Letterboxd
liveGet in touch
Hiring for a SWE internship, building something interesting, or want to talk about common interests? Drop a line.











