Santi Santichaivekin
Software Engineer at Plaid
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSanti Santichaivekin is a software engineer at Plaid with a decade of experience building data infrastructure and backend systems. A Harvey Mudd alumnus who spent years as a CS teaching assistant and research lead, he brings strong algorithmic foundations and a knack for mentoring and reproducible engineering practices. His background includes internships at Uber and Microsoft where he optimized routing algorithms and responsive UI pipelines, and production backend work in Java and Node.js for LINE MAN Wongnai. He led the development and release of Empress, a Python tool for studying coevolution, demonstrating end-to-end product delivery from CI/CD to user-facing documentation. Based in San Francisco, he combines systems-level thinking with practical tooling expertise—often translating research-style rigor into production-ready pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Thai, English
Github Skills (83)
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bundle9
qt9
javascript9
nlp9
duplication9
python9
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computational-biology9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ssantichaivekin/blog
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
My blog.
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
my-blog
ssantichaivekin/empress
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 90 commits in 2 years 6 months
systematicdtl-reconciliationbioinformaticslosscomputational-biology
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