Kaccie L
General Engineer at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKaccie L is a General Engineer and FDA medical device reviewer with eight years of hands-on experience bridging adaptive optics, vision science, and software engineering. She pioneered the first non-trivial control system for an AO scanning laser ophthalmoscope, enabling visualization of individual cone photoreceptors, and brings deep expertise in aberration theory, wavefront sensing, and wavefront control. Her career spans industry and government roles where she built production-ready optical systems, led product-grade iOS apps that integrate clinical measurements and visual performance modeling, and reduced manufacturing costs through thoughtful optical design. At FDA she evaluates refractive lasers and medical devices with a physicist’s emphasis on core mechanisms rather than rote regulatory checklists. Comfortable moving from C++/Python frameworks to iOS development, she combines rigorous academic training (PhD, UC Berkeley) with practical product delivery and regulatory perspective.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Vision Science/Physiological Optics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Vision Science/Physiological Optics at University of California, BerkeleyWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at University of Rochester
English, Dutch, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (11)
xcode6
uiimage6
opencv6
ios6
swift6
importerror6
reduction6
cgimage6
python6
depth4
image-processing2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kaccie14/va
Jan 2020 - Mar 2023
Easy conversion across different visual acuity scales
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
conversionpythoneasy-conversionscales
kaccie14/shwfs
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Shack-Hartmann data reduction
Contributions:36 commits, 10 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 9 months
reductiondata-reduction
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