# Chris L.

> CS Student at UC Berkeley

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisl

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Distributed Data Systems

### Research Assistant @ Berkeley RISE Lab
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
Carrying out research to automate the optimization of distributed protocols (such as MultiPaxos), identifying where they can be better distributed and scaled while preserving correctness

### Founder & Lead Director @ California Informatics Competition
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
Founded the first high-school programming contest at UC Berkeley to promote the growth of problem solving skills

### Software Engineer Intern @ Sigma Computing
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Data Governance Team, Backend Role

### Teaching Assistant @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
Taught CS170 (Efficient Algorithms & Intractable Problems), CS61A (Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs), CS198-112 (Intro to Algorithmic Thinking), CS198-132 (Intro to Competitive Programming), CS61B (Data Structures)

### Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
CS61B (Data Structures)
• Hosted biweekly lab sections under the head TA to provide technical feedback and debug students’ projects

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Messenger Privacy Foundations Team

### Software Engineer Intern @ Aila Health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Contributed to the mobile front-end design and server architecture for the final product
• Managed user accounts and data with Google Firebase infrastructure

### Founder & Director @ SRC Hacks
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-for-hire

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Last updated: 2026-03-29