# Misha Kotlik > Software Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mishakotlik Software engineer passionate about solving challenging problems and building impactful applications. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ InfinityRx Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States ### Software Developer @ Columbia Law School Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States • Developed a new classroom seat reservation web app with a custom-built SVG-based interactive seating chart, doubling page loading speed and responsiveness compared to the legacy app • Built web apps for professors to manage their class rosters and for students to top-up their campus printing allowances, using Vue.js and Spring Boot • Implemented REST API endpoints in the Spring backend to connect to the frontend and to outside services • Integrated the in-house registrar’s system with a new third-party admissions platform to enable automatic data transfers, saving the admissions department over five hours of manual work per week • Collaborated with an agile team and performed unit and end-to-end testing, to ensure that projects fit smoothly into an enterprise system, were easily maintained, and worked reliably for thousands of users ### Research Fellow @ Gharavi Lab at Columbia University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States • Researched methods to increase the sensitivity of the variant calling pipeline, without significantly affecting accuracy and cost, using Pandas and Numpy for analysis and Seaborn and Matplotlib for visualization • Analyzed variants from trios to identify genes with potential compound heterozygosity in the probands ### Teaching Assistant @ Tufts University Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Medford, Massachusetts, United States • Assisted students in the Machine Structure and Assembly Language Programming class by holding office hours, leading lab sessions, and grading exams and software design proposals • Explained topics including the C language and software architecture, provided feedback on program designs, gave advice on problem solving and time management, and helped debug code ### Software Developer @ Columbia Law School Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States • Designed and built a more user-friendly interface for viewing course evaluation reports, using Bootstrap • Wrote Spring-based services to sync student data from the registrar’s system to external systems via APIs • Performed QA testing on user interfaces and fixed bugs in legacy code after the upgrade of a UI library • Created a Python program to systematically identify and fix over 2,000 broken links on the law school website, improving performance in Google Search • Prepared for projects by thoroughly researching the department’s tools, systems, and protocols Completed these projects and others during the summers of 2017, 2018, and 2019, and the winter of 2020 ### Research Assistant @ Cowen Lab at Tufts University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Medford, Massachusetts, United States Built machine learning models to predict cancer cell movement in 3D space based on 2D analyses, as part of a project that led to a published paper: “Cell shape, and not 2D migration, predicts extracellular matrix-driven 3D cell invasion in breast cancer” by J. P. Baskaran et al. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Tufts University Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### Stuyvesant High School Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-kotlik - GitHub: https://github.com/mkotlik --- Source: https://flows.cv/mishakotlik JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mishakotlik/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01