# Yugraj Dhillon

> CS @ UC Davis | Software Engineer | Full-Stack | Machine Learning | Backend, Data & Cloud Systems

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yugraj

Software Engineer | Computer Science senior at UC Davis (June 2026). I build full-stack applications, backend systems, and data pipelines using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway). Experienced with FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions. Currently developing NLP pipelines and geospatial dashboards for veterinary health research. Previously researched LLM safety and built ML models for Congressional vote prediction (95.7% accuracy). Open to Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, and Full-Stack Developer roles.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Jan 2026 – Present | Davis, California, United States
Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) - Animal Cancer Registry 
- Co-authored abstract accepted at SAVY 3.0 (Cornell) on veterinary cancer registry methodology
- Training model to map ICD-0 codes to patient data
- Built a geospatial dashboard mapping cancer cases by census tract with environmental risk overlays

### Director of Infrastructure @ Swift Coding Club @ UC Davis
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Davis, California, United States

### Tech Policy Fellow @ CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Jan 2026 – Jan 2026 | Berkeley, California, United States
CITRIS Tech Policy

### Software Engineer Intern @ American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Davis, California, United States
- Served as sole IT contact for the branch, managing website, member communications, and technical infrastructure
- Migrated file storage to AWS S3, improving reliability and access for branch leadership
- Drove 300% increase in web traffic through site optimizations and content updates

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Computational Communication Research Lab (C² Lab)
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Davis, California, United States
• Designed prompt experiments across 6 LLMs to quantify AI safety alignment and detect suppression of harm-related information
• Built automated analysis pipelines to calculate relative risk scores across 50+ topics
• Evaluated response consistency and bias patterns for LLM safety research

### Recreation Specialist @ City of Manteca
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Manteca, California, United States


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of California, Davis

### Associate of Science - AS in Computer Science
Modesto Junior College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yugraj-dhillon
- Portfolio: https://yugd.dev/
- GitHub: https://github.com/YugrajD

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Last updated: 2026-04-11