Leo Shi

SWE Intern @Stripe | MS Software Engineering @CMU | BS Math-CS @UCSD

Menlo Park, California, United States

About

🎓 I’m a Software Engineering Master’s student at Carnegie Mellon University, with a background in Mathematics–Computer Science and Data Science from UC San Diego. 🛠️ My toolkit includes Express, Flask, Django, SQL Databases, AWS, GCP, and Docker. I enjoy designing scalable, reliable systems that bridge clean architecture with real-world impact. 🎶 Outside of coding, you’ll probably find me listening to music or playing the ukulele — creativity fuels both my art and my engineering.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Stripe
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    User Billing - Pricing Data

  • Carnegie Mellon University (Part-time · 9 mos)
    • Software Researcher - Prof. Rafal Wlodarski
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      Contributing to research in software engineering education tools.

    • Bioinformatics Researcher - Prof. Min Xu
      Oct 2025 - Jan 2026 · 4 mos

      Contributing to research on deep learning for imaging and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET).

  • Software Engineer at STEMz Learning
    Jul 2024 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Led a team of 6 developers to extend core systems with Express.js and MongoDB, scaling the frontend-only prototype to a service with 30+ API endpoints and multi-classroom data support. Designed and deployed the teacher-platform web application, supporting roughly ~200 active student/teacher accounts with announcement, chatroom, and direct message features.

  • Viroinformatics Researcher - Prof. Max Qian / Gene Tan at J. Craig Venter Institute
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

    Developed ML-driven applications for protein structure and stability prediction and integrated them into a researcher-facing web platform (Express.js + HTML/JS/CSS) deployed with Docker and AWS EC2. Automated data ingestion and preprocessing pipelines through Python, Jupyter and Bash scripting, supporting large-scale proteome translation of thousands of viral sequences (~20k amino acids each).

  • Bioinformatics Researcher - Prof. Milton Saier / Arturo Medrano-Soto at UC San Diego
    Jul 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos