Zhuyi Xue, Developer in Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Zhuyi Xue

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Machine Learning Developer

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Toptal member since July 26, 2016

Expertise
Machine LearningPythonLinuxGitNumPyCloud EngineeringJavaScriptHerokuDjangoGoogle App Engine
Bio

Zhuyi is a skilled Python developer with over seven years of experience. He is also proficient in JavaScript and Scala. He has collected experience in a wide array of technologies with strong focuses on PyData stack, Django, and cloud computing. He is very detail-oriented and proactive, with great communication skills.

Portfolio

Genome Sciences Centre
PyData, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Django, Machine Learning
TotalWebmaster
Google App Engine

Experience

  • Python - 8 years
  • JavaScript - 5 years
  • Pandas - 5 years
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 5 years
  • Scrapy - 4 years
  • Django - 4 years
  • Machine Learning - 4 years
  • Apache Spark - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Tmux, Git, Emacs, Linux

The most amazing...

...web app I've built tracks usage from over eight supercomputers across Canada for my research group.

Work Experience

Computational Biologist

2014 - 2019
Genome Sciences Centre
  • Developed multiple pipelines for analyzing massive genomics data in Python.
  • Wrote tests with over 80% coverage for an analysis pipeline and developed a progress tracking dashboard in Django.
  • Leveraged a Google Cloud platform to deploy massive computation with 15,000 cores.
Technologies: PyData, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Django, Machine Learning

Lead Developer

2014 - 2015
TotalWebmaster
  • Developed both back-end using the WebApp2 framework and front-end in AngularJS.
  • Designed the database in Google Cloud Datastore.
  • Developed the daily task pipeline of fetching data from Google Search Console and exporting the data into Google Cloud Datastore and Google BigQuery tables.
  • Designed and built the front-end dashboard in NVD3.
  • Developed the build-deploy-test workflow in Gulp.
Technologies: Google App Engine

Experience

Answer Set for Stanford CS229

Worked out and provided answers to all problem sets in one of the most popular machine learning courses online, CS229 by Stanford.

90 GitHub stars

1.5k views biweekly

Sutton-barto-rl-exercises

https://github.com/zyxue/sutton-barto-rl-exercises
Learning reinforcement learning by implementing the algorithms from reinforcement learning an introduction Edit

30 GitHub stars

Ncbitax2lin

https://github.com/zyxue/ncbitax2lin
Convert the whole NCBI taxonomy into lineages of all known organisms.

For example, the taxonomic lineage of human beings is Eukaryota > Chordata > Mammalia > Primates > Hominidae > Homo > Homo sapiens.

37 GitHub stars

SamFormat

http://www.samformat.info/
SamFormat interprets genomics code on the client side in a highly responsive manner.

Google rank 2nd if searching for "sam flag" as of this entry.

RLjs

Reinforcement learning algorithms implemented in JavaScript and React, demonstrated with Gridworld toy example.

TPR Parser

https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/blob/master/package/MDAnalysis/topology/tpr/utils.py
TPR Parser closes a 5-year old feature-request ticket for MDAnalysis, a software package for analyzing molecular dynamics (MD) data in Python. TPR is the file that contains all the structural topology information and running parameters of a MD system in Gromacs encoded by XDR Standard (RFC 1014).

Education

2010 - 2013

Master of Science Degree in Data Science

University of Toronto - Toronto

Certifications

AUGUST 2018 - SEPTEMBER 2020

Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer

Google Cloud

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Pandas, Scikit-learn, SciPy, Matplotlib, NumPy, TensorFlow, PyData, D3.js, Google Maps SDK, jQuery, React

Tools

Emacs, Pytest, IPython, BigQuery, Git, Tmux

Languages

Python, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, Scala, CSS

Frameworks

webapp2, Scrapy, Django, Flask, Django REST Framework, Apache Spark, Bootstrap, Redux, AngularJS

Platforms

Jupyter Notebook, Google App Engine, Linux, Heroku, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Cloud Engine, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meteor

Industry Expertise

Bioinformatics

Storage

Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Datastore, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Other

Machine Learning, Software Development

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