# Morris Wan > SWE @ Sigma, SHV Codepoint Fellow Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/morris Currently at Sigma Computing ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Sigma Computing Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area On the App Writeback team, building the scalable database for data applications ### Codepoint Fellow @ Sutter Hill Ventures Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Software Engineer @ Kikoff Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Working on platform and payments team ### Software Engineer Internship @ Citadel Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 • Automated configuration of network load balancers saving 10-15 engineering hours a week using Netbox Plugin. • Produced additional plugin to associate service tickets to tools for better process management and standardization. • Utilized Django and Apache Airflow to create and query RESTAPIs to remove the need for engineer oversight. ### Tech Team Member @ HexLabs, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 • Revamped backend schema of prize distribution application used by ~2k users in MongoDB, Node.js, Express • Improved internal expense management software with React, PostgreSQL, managing ~$200k annual budget ### Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 • Developed pattern-analysis algorithm in PySpark to classify phases of production using ~500 million row dataset. • Created visualization dashboard for algorithm predictions as well as real-time status of production pipeline. • Developed better input sampling for data transforms using React, reducing pipeline testing from minutes to seconds. ### Data Science Intern @ IBM Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 • Researched graph analytics to improve medical fraud detection, reducing need for 10,000+ heuristic algorithms. • Finalist in internal Hackathon about using Graphx. ### Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ Flock Safety Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 • Researched and developed using a Milvus Vector Database for reverse image search on a ~150 million image database, decreasing latencies on image searches by 60% (5 to 2 seconds) • Assisted in improving and Dockerizing Pytorch model serving architecture using Nvidia’s Triton Inference Server and Starlette framework in Python, significantly decreasing costs of running models ### Discrete Mathematics Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 • Provided office hours guidance and homework assistance to a ~500-person class ### Student Researcher @ Georgia Tech VIP Program Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Community and Digital Archives VIP • Improved a merge script in Python to merge redundant NLP generated tags for 10,000 historical documents • Spearheaded research into Dockerizing application for distribution and improving tags using Heritage Collector ### Referee @ U.S. Soccer Federation Jan 2012 – Jan 2020 ### SWE Intern @ Georgia Tech Research Institute Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Developed Sonaria, an educational Android Studio app displaying principles of sonar/radar for outreach • Implemented backend signal processing aspect of the app, including creating and implementing a Matched Filter Algorithm in Java ### Research Intern @ College of Computing and Software Engineering (CCSE) at Kennesaw State University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 • Researched the Effects of and Defenses Against Adversarial Attacks on an applied Traffic-light Classifying Convolution Neural Network using Tensorflow and Python • Presented work at C-day showcase, winning the award for 3rd Best Undergraduate Research Project • First author on published paper at Association for Computer Machinery Southeastern Conference ### Research Intern @ Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Summer Scholars Research Program Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Researched mechanisms behind cancer-associated Histone H3 mutations and oncogenesis using budding yeast as a model organism ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 ### High School Diploma Wheeler High School Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/morriswan - Website: https://morriswan.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/morris JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/morris/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23