My name is Nicholas Murray-Ishihara, and I'm a founding software engineer specializing in ML infrastructure, full-stack applications, and healthcare technology. I'm passionate about building scalable systems that solve complex problems, from distributed training platforms to healthcare data applications.

I graduated in 2019 from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.S. in Computer Science and am currently pursuing a Professional Certificate in Embedded Engineering from UC San Diego. In my downtime, I enjoy golf, playing chess, and visiting indie bookstores.

Skills

• Languages: Python - TypeScript - JavaScript - C++ - Go - PHP
• Frontend: React - Next.js - Tailwind CSS - React Native
• Backend: FastAPI - Node.js - GraphQL
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS EKS/ECS - Kubernetes - Docker - Celery - Temporal
• Databases: PostgreSQL - MySQL - Weaviate - SQLite
• ML/AI: Ray - MLflow - AWS Textract - Llama 2

Experience

• Founding Software Engineer - RapidFire AI (May 2024–Present)
  Built ML experimentation platform and AWS deployment infrastructure for distributed training
• Founding Software Engineer - Project Quench (2023-2024)
  Healthcare RAG application transforming medical records into semantic search engine
• Software Engineer III - Samsara (2022–2023)
  ELD Compliance team maintaining >99% SLA for 100k+ drivers
• Software Engineer - Expensify (2020–2022)
  Led money transfer features and customer migrations on business-chat platform

Projects

• BookShelf App - iOS app with 5k users, #138 in Books category, built collections sharing and analytics
• Steward (Clinical SLM) - Northwestern collaboration deploying clinical language models on AWS SageMaker
• FastenHealth - Open-source contributor for personal health data aggregator