# Colin Z. > Software Engineer at Kaliber Labs Inc. Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/colinz I'm a full stack software engineer at Kaliber Labs in San Mateo, CA. Most recently, I worked on multiple open source projects and in several startups in the telecom, civic, nuclear power, and education spaces. My technical expertise lies primarily in full stack engineering and integrating AI into production software. I am particularly interested in AI orchestration and how to build effective agentic workflows. In addition, my experience in writing (33 million answer views on Quora) have allowed me to communicate well with my peers in both school and the workplace. Outside of work, you can find me playing the piano works of Chopin, analyzing financial markets, tackling 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles, and solving Rubik's Cubes of various sizes (2x2 to 7x7). ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Kaliber Labs Inc. Jan 2026 – Present | San Mateo, CA Integrating finetuned multimodal LLM's into clinical healthcare applications that span multiple verticals, including speech therapy, patient-nurse interaction settings, etc. ### Technical Blogger @ Medium Jan 2025 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States Writing technical deep dive blog posts on various programming topics, not including to: React internals, Node.js, FastAPI, distributed systems, and computer security topics. ### Open Source Software Developer @ GitHub Jan 2020 – Present | Issaquah, Washington, United States Taught myself how to implement 12+ Machine Learning papers using PyTorch, focusing on Transformers and convolutional neural networks (using CIFAR-100) dataset. Launched LLM-God, an Electron desktop app that allows users to prompt multiple LLM web interfaces at once! Achieved 220+ stars on GitHub and over 22k impressions on Twitter. Architect of other projects like a version of the popular Microsoft game Wordament, a Google Chrome extension to block YouTube, a simple geographical locator, and a new version of Whitehouse.gov. ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Nuclearn Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Phoenix, Arizona, United States • Utilized FastAPI/SQLAlchemy to develop backend functionality to accelerate retrieval speed of up to 25 most similar records in a dataset using 500+ embeddings generated through natural language techniques. Designed a backend workflow using new SQLAlchemy models to migrate 100+ YAML configs from five files into PostgreSQL, enabling dynamic updates via a React frontend and eliminating backend restarts during development. • Improved frontend reliability and speed for proprietary AtomAssist chatbot, by optimizing markdown processing for artifacts feature. Implemented role-based access control with error handling for access management, ensuring more secure access to 10+ unique web app features on the frontend like AtomAssist chatbot, and Cluster Analytics. ### Open Source Developer @ PolicyEngine Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Issaquah, Washington, United States • Improved reliability of company’s blog page by using JavaScript to properly render 50+ blog images with fallbacks. Improved developer velocity by adding a URL route to show the API status, serving 100 requests / min from around 50 authenticated users. • Streamlined 150 Jest unit tests by refactoring 5 metadata API calls to occur in the beginning of testing runs, accelerating unit testing time by 27%. ### Frontend Web Developer @ Ecological Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Champaign, Illinois, United States • Implemented a 5 page responsive dashboard using React and Ant Design for a web app to help small businesses track their carbon footprint. Optimized the responsiveness of the web app to fit desktop and mobile devices using CSS media queries and responsive design principles. • Used 15 GraphQL queries generated on AWS to dynamically customize the dashboard for premium and basic plan users, reducing frontend complexity and improving developer efficiency. Developed a 4 step sign up process for a more fluid user registration workflow using React and Ant Design with TypeScript. ### Software Engineering Intern @ IO Intelligence Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Bellevue, Washington, United States • Constructed an 8 page responsive dashboard using React, TypeScript and Chakra UI to coherently display mobile network data from 5 devices that was stored in Prometheus.io for better IT analysis. Implemented a Node.js server using Express that queried a MySQL database containing user data, reducing the data population latency of the dashboard. ### Frontend Developer @ Molloy Moreno LLC Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 • Shipped Project Elpis in 3 months, a serverless web app that helps at-risk high school students in NYC track their career progress. Used React and TypeScript to create the ability for teachers to download student progress forms, improving instructor workflow and improving transparency. • Utilized React and 20 GraphQL queries from Amazon backend to create features allowing teachers to add new students, and create / assign learning pathways with responsive design principles, reducing the number of steps to manage students. ### Open Source Developer/Designer @ DemocracyLab Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States UI Designer for the CodePDX project; using Figma to design and give feedback to developers. CodePDX is an organization that develops applications to improve the lives of people living in the Portland, OR area. Briefly a Front-End Developer for Accessibility Ratings, a web app with the goal of helping users submit accessibility feedback to big tech companies regarding their worldwide app offerings. Polished up user interface using React framework. Designer on the iSeaTree mobile app project: created a mockup of the tutorial section of the iSeaTree app using Figma, tested application for any bugs. ### Writer and Contributor @ Quora Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, California I write answers to questions on Quora about current events, technology related topics, and history. I have garnered over 25 million answer views as of early 2020 and have over 10k followers. My answers have been translated into over 5 languages and have been given recognition numerous times by the most popular writers on Quora. I also am a contributor to New Economy Mindset, a space(blog) on Quora with over 75,000 followers and am running my own space called Futuristic and Retro Tech, with over 30,000 followers. ### Freelance Writer @ Upwork Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Issaquah, Washington, United States Freelance writer on Upwork, utilizing my outreach to write answers for clients on Quora. Written topics include finance, and cloud optimization. ### Design Specialist & Head of Public Relations @ Endevre Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, California I helped Endevre obtain partnership opportunities with multiple hackathons in Cupertino (Tino Hacks, BaseHacks, who agreed to use our company's user management software. I used my negotiation and communication skills to interact with clients about using company products. In addition, I am responsible for coordinating meetings with fellow employees and designing the web pages/banners for promotions using Figma. ## Education ### Masters in Computer Science (MCS) in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Computer Science in Computer Science Bellevue College ### High School Diploma Cupertino High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/colin-z-84a1a0137 - Portfolio: https://czhou578.github.io/v3/ - Portfolio: https://medium.com/@colizu2020 --- Source: https://flows.cv/colinz JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/colinz/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10