Hi! I am Colin Zhou.....
Local Time: 6/20/2026, 12:31:52 AM
I graduated from UIUC with a Masters in Computer Science, and obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bellevue College. I was born in Canada, but grew up in the Bay Area, lived near Seattle, Washington for 6 years, and am now in San Mateo, California.
I am currently a software engineer at Kaliber Labs, helping integrate multimodal LLM's into consumer products in the healthcare space. Previously, I worked at Nuclearn.ai (nuclear power startup) as a full stack engineer, and did multiple internships in the civics, telecom, environmental, and educational sectors. I am broadly interested in integrating the latest AI into useful products and how state of the art machine learning inference systems serve tokens to millions of customers.
When I'm not sitting at the computer, you can find me solving Rubik's Cubes of various sizes, practicing a difficult piano piece and posting it on my Instagram, doing 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles with my sister, or taking long walks around my neighborhood. You can also find me writing technical articles at my blog.
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Masters in Computer ScienceActivities: CS 411 Database Project Team Lead
Relevant classes: User-Interface Design, Databases, Advanced Data Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, ML + Data Systems
Bellevue College
B.S. in Computer ScienceActivities: CS Student Advisory Board Treasurer
Relevant classes: Data Structures, Algorithms, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Architecture, Internet of Things, Computer Networks, Linear Algebra, Senior Capstone I, II, III, Discrete Math, Calculus III
Cupertino High School
High School DiplomaActivities: Speech and Debate Club Member, Sophomore English Tutor
Relevant classes: AP Computer Science A,, AP Statistics,, AP Physics C: Mechanics,, AP Chemistry,, AP United States History, AP Calculus AB
Experience
Software Engineer
Kaliber Labs Inc.
01/2026 - present • San Mateo, CA, United States (Onsite)
• Rearchitected the Conversation Pipeline demo to be more modular and extendable to various medical skills, such as Speech Therapy / Patient Intake using FastAPI and React. Successfully orchestrated multiple model operations within one system (Qwen, GPT).
• Leveraged the Conversation System to create a data platform deployed on AWS for subject matter experts (SME's) situated around the US to verify and collect data on doctor-like responses from the in-house medical AI.
Full Stack Software Engineer
Nuclearn
12/2024 - 02/2025 • Phoenix, Arizona, United States (Remote)
• Utilized FastAPI/SQLAlchemy to develop backend functionality for retrieving up to 25 most similar records in a dataset using 500+ embeddings generated through natural language techniques. Architected a back-end workflow with new SQLAlchemy datamodels to migrate 100+ YAML configurations across five config files into PostgreSQL, enabling dynamic updates via a React frontend, eliminating the need for Nuclearn's developers to restart the web backend during development if such configurations were changed.
• Optimized markdown processing for artifacts displayed across 10+ tool calls in AtomAssist, Nuclearn's proprietary AI chatbot. Implemented role-based access control with error handling for consumer, admin, and contributor roles, ensuring secure access to 10+ unique web app features on the frontend like Cap AI, AtomAssist, Capitalizer, and Cluster Analytics
Open Source Software Engineer
PolicyEngine
03/2024 - present • Issaquah, Washington, United States (Remote)
• Worked with 3 contributors on PolicyEngine's web app project on GitHub (over 600 visits monthly).
• Assisted in migrating the front end component library to the newest version of Ant Design. Streamlined 150 Jest unit tests by refactoring 5 metadata API calls to occur in the beginning of testing runs.
Software Engineer Intern
EcoLogical
09/2023 - 12/2023 • Champaign, Illinois, United States (Remote)
• Using Ant Design components to improve the front-end experience of the flagship web app.
• Set up 10 mutations and queries to AWS Amplify backend for the user signup workflow.
Software Engineer Intern
IOIntelligence
07/2022 - 09/2022 • Bellevue, Washington, United States
• Developed a 5 page application dashboard that displays networking analytics from company's wireless devices worldwide.
• Used Chakra UI, React for frontend and Express.js and MySQL for the backend.
Software Engineer Intern
Molloy Moreno LLC
06/2021 - 09/2021 • Issaquah, Washington, United States
• Developed a serverless web app for New York school teachers to track the academic progress of at-risk students.
• Made final design choices for UI components.
• Used React to implement UI components on the frontend and AWS for storing media on the backend.
Projects
A desktop application that allows you to query 4 LLM's at once for a single input. Supports Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini and more! As someone who uses LLM's a lot in my day to day life, I wanted an easy and convenient way to ask multiple LLM's at once, and it resulted in this project.
For my senior year capstone project in undergraduate, I worked with three others to create a Yelp-like app that will empower and enable food truck vendors to more easily attract customers and run their business. I worked with mostly Typescript and React.js on the front end for developing the UI and used Adobe XD for the initial mockups. On the backend, I helped with writing SQL queries and making sure the AWS services were linked up seamlessly with the frontend.
In my first internship, I helped create an educational web app that helps at risk high school students track their future career goals. I utilized various front end technologies like React.js along with backend tools like AWS for hosting. After the internship was completed, this app is now in beta testing in a high school of a couple hundred students in New York City.
A web application with a React frontend and three backends written in different languages that are all connected to a common MySQL database. Users will be able to send repetitive queries to any backend that they choose and see how fast the server responds after the completed operation.
Skills
Frontend
Backend
Tools
Classwork
Hobbies
I started learning piano when I was 8 and took lessons for almost 10 years. I passed the Certificate of Merit Level 10 exam and also went to multiple piano competitions on top of yearly recitals. After quitting private lessons in high school due to work, I began to play more as a hobby, and started uploading footage of myself trying out challenging pieces on my Instagram and TikTok. I play mostly classical composers like Chopin, but also a large variety of other genres too!
I am a fan of Rubik's Cube speedsolving and have participated in multiple official competitions since 2014. My best time in a competition was 12.92 seconds. Here is a video of myself solving a 3x3 cube in under 14 seconds at a Bay Area event in 2015.
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