Kai Malloy

I am a Software Engineer with expertise in constructing AWS data pipelines, building backend services, and performing data analysis and visualization. My current interest is in MLOps and working with big data.

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Experience

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

I am a Software Engineer II in the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. I currently work with the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration to improve security and throughput at our borders.

Education

University of California, Irvine

I have a B.S. in Computer Science with a specialization in Intelligent Systems from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. During my time at UC Irvine, I was an active member in research and mentoring students for undergraduate Computer Science classes.

Research

DataLab Group

As an undergraduate researcher for Padhraic Smyth’s DataLab Group, I worked with Ph.D. student Casey Graff on improving wildfire forecasting using learning based models. With assistance from the Information and Computer Science Honors Program and the Summer Undergraduate Researh Program Grant, I produced a thesis on a recurrent addition to a convolutional neural network for predicting wildfire spread.

Calit2

I have previously worked with Bill Tomlinson at Calit2. Professor Tomlinson conducts research at the intersection of sustainability and IT. I have helped brainstorm sustainability projects and worked on a ruby on rails platform for simulating patent protection.

Internships

Apple

As an iPhone Quality Engineer Intern, I worked on compiling and analyzing large amounts of iPhone Failure Analysis data. I experimented with different means of visualization, presented on data trends, and proposed further avenues of exploration. Within my 7 month internship, I built 2 data visualization GUI applications and optimized a parsing/visualization task that took 10 minutes using internal tools down to 5 seconds with my Python script.

Teaching

ICS 6D Discrete Mathematics | ICS 31 Introduction to Programming

As a Learning Assistant at UC Irvine, I held office hours to answer students questions and promote discussion during lectures and discussion. I have worked for professor Sandy Irani’s ICS 6D Discrete Mathematics course in spring 2020 and professor Shannon Alfaro’s ICS 31 Introduction to Programming course in winter and spring of 2021.

AppJam+

I worked as a mentor at AppJam+ to teach the core fundamentals of programming through mobile applications to students in the Orange County district. I managed a group of 30 middle school students, maintaining a schedule for their projects from conception to completion.

Activities

The Green Initiative Fund

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) is a student run funding board to empower undergraduate students with the financial resources to launch projects for sustainable causes. As a commissioner for TGIF, I helped with running and recording board meetings to decide which projects to fund. I also managed the projects that were approved by the board.