Yuxin Shi
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuxin Shi is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with nine years of experience building cloud-native, high-performance systems and microservices. Skilled in Java, Python, and Scala, Yuxin has driven platform-level integrations and compiler work—most notably adding Nextflow support and enhancing WDL/CWL compilation and conformance at DNAnexus to optimize large-scale bioinformatics pipelines. He blends applied bioengineering training from UC San Diego and Michigan with hands-on platform SDK, CLI, and API development to bridge research workflows and production cloud infrastructure. Now at Databricks, he continues to focus on scalable compute and distributed systems while bringing a pragmatic, performance-first mindset to complex project leadership. Colleagues rely on him for making language compatibility and execution optimizations practical at scale—work that often lives at the intersection of genomics tooling and cloud engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering at University of MichiganBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (43)
python10
barrage10
wake-on-lan10
compiler10
wdl10
next-generation-sequencing9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
rna-seq9
immunology8
sequencing8
pipeline8
nextflow8
reproducible-research8
singularity8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
YuxinShi0423/MyWiki
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:138 pushes in 1 month
dnanexus/dx-toolkit
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
DNAnexus platform client libraries
Contributions:214 reviews, 434 commits, 99 PRs in 1 year 7 months
pythontoolkitclient-librariesdnanexusbarrage
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