# Lyhour(Lee) Lay > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lyhourlee Software Engineer in Biotech. Skills: Node.js, Javascript, Typescript, Python, Automation, Bi-platform(Looker and Metabase), GCP, Internal Tool(superblock), SQL, No-SQL, Postgres, Prisma, Next.js, React.js, Object-Oriented Programming, Database, Rest API. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2025 – Present ### Software Engineer III @ Vial Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer II @ Vial Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Research Associate Intern @ Crown Bioscience, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Diego, California, United States I managed 5-10 cell lines starting from thawing to banking and inoculating in an agile and fast paced work environment. I trained new employees with aseptic techniques and cell culture procedures. I collaborated with study directors to improve the process, quality of cells, and lifecycle documentation. ### Residential Assistant @ University of California San Diego Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | La Jolla As a resident assistant, I serve as mediator, mentor, educator, and facilitator. I helped students forming a community so that they could feel like home during their college career. To do so, I plan fun social programs to allow students to meet each other and create long lasting friendships. I plan 4 suite socials and one building social per quarter. I learned how to be flexible with my schedule and strengthen my organization skill. I also have 5 hours duty 5 times a quarter and a 3 hours staff meeting every Tuesday which we plan a large scale program for the whole Sixth College residents. The position strengthens my multitasking skill, time management, and communication among a large diverse team. I educate my residents about social justice, mental health, sexual health, and etc. At Sixth College, we have the smallest budget for programming compared to the other colleges, this allows me to learn how to manage all the funding and utilize all resources that our school has, to plan amazing programs for my residents. In addition, as a resident assistant, I serve as a mediator for 53 students. For example, if there is a student who has a roommate conflict that cannot be resolved, I facilitate a meeting where both students come together to discuss the issue. With the experience from this position, I learn how to utilize resources and funding for the program and learn how to work as a team to educate students and create a community at Sixth College. ### Orthopaedic Surgery Research Assistant @ University of California San Diego Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | La Jolla, CA In the lab, I am responsible for documenting rats' health during the study. During each study, I managed and documented 20-30 rats’ walking behavior and their weight to ensure that they are not at risk after drug injection. I am often in charge of DNA extraction and communicate with my colleagues to make sure that PCR is being performed before the deadlines. For the past two years, I have learned to adapt and become a versatile worker. For example, I could independently pipet the solutions or collaboratively document the heart rate and assist during the surgery. In the lab, I learned how to analyze risk, solve unexpected problems, implement the process, independently work in a safe environment, and work as a team. In spring 2019, I was working on an independent project that I received a fellowship from Dr. Julia Brown. We cultured 60 tissues in 3 different solutions: Control, Chimera High, Chimera Low. We found that Chimera has significantly higher cell viability than the other groups in the cartilage. Through the project, I learn how to perform different assays to test tissue’s condition. I also learned how to perform staining on 300 histology samples. We found that NFKB, a transcription factor helps prolong cell condition by preventing it from going into apoptosis pathway. However, the data is just a trend because its difference is not statistically significant. The position has taught me a lot of technical experience like documentation, wet lab, pathology, tissue culture, dilution, animal behavioral study, and genotyping and strengthen my communication, organization, problem solving, and adaptation ### Membership Development Coordinator @ University of California San Diego Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | La Jolla, CA I joined the organization because I believe that residential area is important to a student's college experience. Being part of NRHH, I was able to do some amazing projects to recognize all 7 residential areas. For example, we have Of The Month(OTM) that recognizes outstanding programs, student leaders, and staff. As part of the organization, I could vote to recognize those nominees. We also have our annual award ceremony called Rezzies where we recognize all outstanding staff, programs, and student councils. We also do amazing service projects. For example, we made blankets for homeless people. We also had a RA recognition project in which we made care packages for all the RAs to recognize their hard work to residential life. As the Membership Development Coordinator, I plan for social, study sessions, and workshops for the organization. I learned how to time manage and balance between school, extracurriculars, and work. I learn how to be accountable for all the deadlines that events that are needed to be planned. ### Peer Facilitator for Summer Engineering Institute @ University of California San Diego Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | La Jolla, CA As a Peer Facilitator, I helped welcoming first year engineering students and parents into our summer program. Summer Engineering Institute is a summer program that helped underrepresented students transitioning into college. As a Peer Facilitator, I helped guiding students around campus and walking them to classes during their first week at UCSD. I also planned and facilitated social events during those 5 weeks to help students build their community. As a Peer Facilitator, I live with the students and become the person that they can go to if there are any emergencies since it's their first time living without their parents. I learned how to facilitate discussions by leading the discussion section where we all helped each other with the coding assignment. I work as a team to help build a community for students. ### Orientation Leader @ University of California San Diego Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ucsd As an orientation leader, we helped facilitate orientation programs. We helped first year and transfer students transitioning into college. We also greeted parents and answered questions that they have about UCSD and Sixth College. During the orientation week, we also plan and facilitate programs to allow students to enjoy their super week at Sixth College and UCSD. ### Summer Research Intern @ Mie University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Tsu, Mie, Japan I conducted research abroad with Dr. Koji Akeda. I analyzed 110 spines after eXtreme Lateral Interbody Fusion(XLIF) with Mimics and C++ to investigate the change of the Disc Height Displacement. I found that XLIF could put patients at risk of developing of Adjacent Segment Degeneration. ### Summer Research Intern 2018 @ Mie University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Tsu, Mie, Japan I developed a M​ATLAB script​ to transform manual process into​ automatic b​y obtaining the parameters 10X faster. I analyzed​ 127 patients’ pelvic parameters by using SPSS as the S​tatistical Analysis​ and concluded that increase in Lumbar Lordosis and Pelvic Tilt correlating to Femoroacetabular Impingement. ### Summer Engineering Institute(ACES Scholar) @ University of California San Diego Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | La Jolla Summer Engineering Institute is a 5 weeks learning experience for Freshman who is attending the upcoming Fall quarter. We took an Engineering course and a major related course over the summer to get ready for the academic year. I also receive scholarship from Academic Community for Engineering Success to pay for the cost of the attendance of this program. ## Education ### Bioengineering in Biotechnology UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### Software Engineering in Computer Software Engineering App Academy Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lyhour --- Source: https://flows.cv/lyhourlee JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lyhourlee/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20