# Lucy C. > Software & AI Engineer | Cross‑Functional Modernization Leader | Legacy‑to‑Modern Systems Specialist Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lucyc Creator & Software / AI Engineer merging code and contrarian thinking. With 5+ years building scalable full-stack solutions—Python, TypeScript, Java, Go; React front ends; Node.js/Flask back ends; SQL/NoSQL data stores—I architect LLM-powered RAG pipelines using OpenAI, Anthropic, Pinecone, LangChain, and ElevenLabs. I streamline MLOps workflows with Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and AWS. By night, I challenge conventional wisdom as a Substack newsletter writer and podcast host, deconstructing tech and medical research to make complex ideas stick. My mission? Spark fresh conversations and build smarter, more human-centered AI. https://medicalresearchdigest.substack.com/ https://github.com/lucycchi ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2022 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Medtronic Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer @ Chewy Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Software Engineer @ AIM Consulting Group Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Software Engineer @ GatsbyHub Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area • Developed in Typescript to ensure a strongly typed format, utilize interfaces of various data types, code completion and intellisense, which provides real time error alerts - creating a maintainable and readable codebase and improving scalability • Utilized Jest manual mocks to test code with simulated database and VS Code API and Mocha for asynchronous and serial testing, implementing test driven development, allowing for short development cycles and faster, parallel test running • Implemented Webpack to bundle, minify, and uglify; used Babel-loader to transpile Typescript code base in order to reduce loading time, enable scripts for test and pretest and automated linting, and decrease bundled file size • Deployed Travis-CI to run web hooks to watch Github repository for changes which spins up virtual machine to build application and run Jest test suite configured in YAML file to protect source code, early error detection and to streamline TDD and CI/CD • Utilized Visual Studio Code API to build Gatsby.js extension on Node.js - to build, run, debug, test and publish the extension utilizing Node’s event driven API’s, asynchronous functions, and single threaded event loop to make all executions non-blocking • Devised algorithm to determine VS Code terminal/Bash root path and development and production server status to allow conditional rendering of VS Code Command API, allowing user to create new Gatsby site, and toggle server status with GUI • Conceived algorithm to asynchronously obtain plugin metadata utilizing NPM API in tandem with Got API to dynamically generate sorted list of Gatsby plugins, etc in VS Code’s TreeView API and VS Code WebView API to selectively display information panel with metadata based on onview event listener, to aid user in full development/production life cycle when using Gatsby.js • Developed under tech accelerator OS Labs, collaborating with Gatsby.js product team for better integration ### Software Engineer @ OSLabs Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Gifted - P2P Gift Donation • Utilized React Native to interpret JavaScript on end-device and communicate with native platforms (iOS and Android) via a serialisation, asynchronous and batched Bridge to build animated FlatList carousel image scrolling and text parallax effect • Utilized GraphQL for external query into Walmart Product List API- allowing for fast runtime fulfillment of queries and predictable results in a single request, bypassing multiple server requests and makes code easy to scale, deprecate, and maintain • Created secure authorization for gift donations utilizing OAuth- to provide limited access to users data via expirable token, ease of implementation and stronger authentication and BCrypt benefit from adaptive function to slow brute force attacks by increasing iteration count and incorporate a salt to protect against rainbow table attacks ### Software Engineer @ Open Source Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Up Time • Utilized Node.js/Express.js to create an efficient abstraction layer, middleware chain to track data flow, and create modularity to allow for rapid scaling, support of Google’s V8 engine, faster debugging, and efficiently handle front end requests • Utilized React-Redux to manage state to create reducers, stores and actions that enforce unidirectional flow, to create reusable actions and reducers to architect React for scale, to abstract away stateful components, and for performance optimization • Utilized Axios for asynchronous client to server promise based requests - for automatic transformations of JSON data, better error handling, built in cross site forgery protection, wide range of supported browsers, use of interceptors • Leveraged React-Router for dynamic routing of views and browsing history feature which allows for backwards and forwards navigation to restore old states and old views, standardized app structure and behavior, lazy code loading, and minimizing server calls ### Software Engineer @ Open Source Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Danger Time • Utilized Redux Thunk and Fetch API to refactor front end to back end asynchronous fetch requests from a REST endpoint and created reducers to modify new versions of immutable state- for predictable and centralized altering of state • Analyzed and generated results using D3.js to create real time data driven transformational line chart with a div, svg, and path, D3.js is written in javascript functional style which allows to be bound directly to the DOM, data customization and reusability • Created Supertest testing suite using Javascript testing frameworks to test data flow: Node JS and Express HTTP servers, routers, controllers and databases -allowing for high level abstraction for testing HTTP and lower level API testing with superagent ### Software Engineer @ Stealth Startup Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California, United States • Created efficient and user friendly web apps for managing data center infrastructure using React JS to create reuseable components • Utilized open source component libraries Material UI and Bootstrap for beautiful and functional user interface design • Utilized React-Redux to manage state to create reducers, stores and actions that enforce unidirectional flow, to create reusable actions and reducers to architect React for scale, to abstract away stateful components, and for performance optimization ### Project Manager @ PREFERRED IPA OF CALIFORNIA, A PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL CORPORATION Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 Data analysis, internal consulting, business development and contract negotiation for a government sponsored HMO with $80-100 million in annual revenue. • Implemented system architecture of ACID-compliant SQL relational databases to track terabytes of healthcare data, benefitting from concurrent-request isolation for multiple users and record durability during failure-incidents to protect life saving information ## Education ### Bachelors of Arts in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology and Psychology University of California, Berkeley ### Master's degree in Public Policy / Healthcare Administration University of Southern California ### Doctor of Medicine - MD University of Minnesota Medical School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chilucy --- Source: https://flows.cv/lucyc JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lucyc/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29