UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
B.S. in Computer Science & Bioinformatics2020
Summa Cum Laude | Phi Beta Kappa | Excellence in Teaching
WORK
ENGINEERING MANAGER, HEALTH AI
Amazon Web ServicesJan '24 - Present
I manage a two-pizza team of talented full-stack engineers @ AWS HealthOmics, a cloud-native bioinformatics platform I helped found. Reach out if you want to join us!
LECTURER
UC San DiegoJun '20 - Present
I'm intermittently an instructor for 2 courses I developed for UC San Diego. The first is Hacking COVID-19, a health informatics series offered in partnership with Saint Petersburg State University. The second is CSE6 XSD (aka CSE 6R), an adaptation of my introductory Python course.
FOUNDING ENGINEER (SR. SDE), HEALTH AI
Amazon Web ServicesFeb '22 - Jan '24
Before transitioning to management, I was a founding engineer for AWS HealthOmics, where I designed, built, and scaled the service's distributed compute platform.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, EC2
Amazon Web ServicesJul '20 - Feb '22
My inaugural post at AWS was on EC2 Hyperplane, a distributed networking system that underpins the core of EC2 VPC. In addition to core network interfaces, I specialized in metrics and data analysis.
REMOTE INSTRUCTION ADVISOR
UC San DiegoApr '20 - Jun '20
I was hired to lead ed-tech automation projects to implement remote instruction in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. My team created bespoke (no/low-code) pipelines spanning educational platforms and academic integrity software, which we integrated across the university.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN
Amazon.comJun '19 - Sep '19
I worked on the Amazon Family team to redesign a full-stack product recommendation tool to expand software usability to all teams across Amazon.
COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Scripps Institute of OceanographyJan '18 - Jun '19
I analyzed genetic data, with an emphasis on de novo assembly. I developed Python pipelines for processing datasets, optimized bioinformatics workflows, and assembled Antarctic DNA.
PRODUCT MANAGER INTERN
BravadoJul '18 - Mar '19
I served a swiss-army-knife role at Bravado, spanning ideation & design sandboxing for major product releases, full-stack web development, and cross-platform quality assurance. I led a data-driven UX overhaul for new user onboarding and a search optimization yielding 90% latency reduction.
PROJECTS: EDUCATION
CSE 6: INTRO TO COMP. SCI. & OOP: PYTHONFeb '20 - Present
I'm the first author of an interactive, adaptive textbook for CSE 6R, a new fully-online introductory computer science course offered across campuses at the University of California. It embraces an active-learning approach to challenge students to critically diagnose their own learning breakdowns.
View the interactive textbook here
CSE 199: DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL EDUCATIONAL TECHNIQUESJan '20 - Jun '20
In partnership with IEEE - Eta Kappa Nu, I led an accredited, four-unit course at UC San Diego for conducting education research. My team was invited to present our initiative at the 13th Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Southwest Region Conference.
View our poster presentation here (Mansuri et al.)
Introduction to Adversarial SearchMay '19 - Mar '20
I'm the lead author for an introductory artifical intelligence mini-course for AP Computer Science students. Learners discover object-oriented programming principles, Minimax, and complete the course by building a Tic-Tac-Toe bot.
Take the course (for free!)
PROJECTS: SOFTWARE
SCRIPTOR
Best Software Engineering Project, Spring 2019React + GCP
Scriptor uses speech-to-text technology to index the UC San Diego Podcast System, allowing students to search for keywords and get precise timestamps with matching information in recorded lectures.
Ahead of its time (and the COVID-19 pandemic), Scriptor was awarded Best Software Engineering Project at UC San Diego in 2019.
View the Scriptor codebase
VIRTUS
Winner - SD Hacks 2019React + Python
Virtus is a scalable solution for personalized education that enables productive and efficient virtual office hours. Instructors register their class and stream office hours remotely, and students use platform integrations to submit questions and collaborate with peers.
Learn more about Virtus
PROJECTS: BIOINFORMATICS
BIOINFORMATICS CRASH COURSEAWS
The Bioinformatics Crash Course is a year-long introductory sequence of lessons that introduces aspiring bioinformaticians to practical, lab-applicable skills. For years, it's served as students' first exposure to bioinformatics due to the current lack of an introductory series.
The Crash Course is open-source and available online
OXFORD-NANOPORE GENOME ASSEMBLYBash + Python
Oxford-Nanopore sequencing, which is moving toward becoming the new genome sequencing standard, was in its infancy when I assembled the genome of a local swamp bacteria. I published a tutorial on how to process, assemble, and annotate Oxford-Nanopore data.
A step-by-step assembly is published here
INTRODUCTION TO EPIGENOMICSGenomics
I co-authored a lesson on epigenomics, written to be accessible to novice learners and introduce students to the field.
The lesson is available here
ORGANIZATIONS
IEEE - ETA KAPPA NU (HKN)
Founder, Computer Science Outreach
HKN is the official honors society of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. I served as an officer from 2019-2020, founding HKN's Computer Science Outreach division. We connected local high schools with the resources and opportunities offered at UC San Diego.
UNDERGRADUATE BIOINFORMATICS CLUB (UBIC)
Ambassador & Course Developer
UBIC is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to furthering bioinformatics initiatives at UC San Diego. From 2017-2018, I was the main contact point for recruiting industry and academia representatives. Since 2018, I've developed and offered the Bioinformatics Crash Course to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students.