# Ziwen Hou

> Software Engineer at Nucleus | Building the future of genomics | We're hiring!

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ziwen

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nucleus
Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Nucleus is ushering in a new era of preventive healthcare based on the power of all your DNA. Using whole-genome sequencing — and personal and lifestyle information — Nucleus provides you with the most comprehensive picture of your risk for diseases and traits that matter to you.

We're hiring: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nucleus

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Culver City, California, United States
• Created a new user flow with Swift to provide millions of customers a new and seamless method of adding album songs to playlists.
• Created a wrapper of the iOS drag and drop library to allow developers to easily make any app view or component draggable and droppable with customizable parameters.
• Refactored Objective-C legacy classes, improving its compatibility and efficiency with newer code.
• Tech Stack: Swift, Objective C

### Software Engineer Intern @ Pickle Poll, Inc
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Pickle Poll is a startup that created a polling social media to seamlessly gauge what app users think regarding questions other users ask.

• Migrated 600+ users in Cognito pools with Lambda triggers to allow new users to register with phone numbers.
• Improved code clarity and push notification delay from 80 seconds to 4 seconds for 600+ users by introducing threads for the notification flow with AWS Lambda.
• Enhanced new and existing user experience with a custom onboarding process, status update notifications and recommendation systems for relevant groups and similar users.
• Tech Stack: AWS Cognito/Lambda/DynamoDB/Amplify/Step Functions, React, Javascript, Python

### Teaching Assitant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Data Structures and Algorithms Courses:
• MCIT 596 w/ Sampath Kannan
• CIS 502 w/ Sampath Kannan
• CIS 320 w/ Sanjeev Khanna

### Tutor @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Intro Programming
• CIS 120 - Java

Data Structures and Algorithms
• CIS 121 - Java

### Employee @ Dunkin Donuts
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States


## Education
### BSE in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### MSE in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### High School Diploma
Masterman Julia R Secondary School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ziwen-hou-950911191

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Source: https://flows.cv/ziwen
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ziwen/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-20