Jinwei Zhu
Senior Software Engineer at Pacvue
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJinwei Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building data-driven systems and ML-infused products, currently improving ad listing and image-generation pipelines at Pacvue. He combines practical ML fine-tuning (PyTorch, Snowflake) and LLM prompt engineering with solid backend and observability skills (Elastic, SQL, OpenShift), having delivered measurable gains like 50% keyword optimization improvements and 10x MRI processing speed-ups. Past roles at NYU Langone and Red Hat show his ability to translate research into production-quality code and secure, cost-effective cloud services. Trained in both computer science and economics at NYU, he approaches problems with quantitative rigor and a philosophical lens that values long-term impact over conventional metrics of success. Active in Effective Altruism and global development discussions, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, ethical reflection, and volunteer-oriented motivation to product work.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at New York UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Governor's Academy
English, Chinese
Github Skills (29)
visualization10
mobx10
cancer-genomics10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
science10
react10
spring-mvc9
frontend9
location8
mybatis7
sequencing6
docker5
wdl3
reproducible-science3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pughlab/cbioportal-frontend
Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
React Frontend of cBioPortal :tada:
Contributions:1 PR, 216 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 6 months
reactcbioportalfrontendreact-frontend
pughlab/cbioportal
Jun 2017 - Jan 2020
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
Contributions:2 PRs, 306 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 7 months
cbioportalpython-wrappertravis-ci-configurationspring-mvcgenomics
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