Colin Xie
Research Software Engineer at Runstad Department of Real Estate, University of Washington
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Xie is an incoming Software Development Engineer Intern at AWS and a UW Seattle computer science student focused on machine learning and data science, with nine years of engineering experience across research, fintech, and AI startups. He has built production-ready data extraction and normalization pipelines for real estate research, achieving multi-fold speedups with concurrency-controlled processing and eliminating manual workflows. Colin has hands-on experience fine-tuning LLMs, designing RAG strategies, and deploying scalable inference pipelines that cut latency and reduced hallucinations, demonstrating both ML research and systems engineering chops. His internships span automated trading systems and real-time analytics demos, reflecting a strong foundation in data-driven backends and low-latency query performance. Known for creative problem solving and leadership in cross-disciplinary teams, he aims to create sustainable ML models that connect people to their communities. A detail that surprises: alongside enterprise-scale work he maintains nonprofit engineering contributions evaluating children’s literature, blending technical impact with civic-mindedness.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tesla STEM High School
Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (4)
python5
data-structures5
java5
programming-language3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ColinX13/curriculum
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
javascriptcurriculum
ColinX13/conjugator
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 24 days
programming-languageconjugatorlanguages
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