Enormously Qualified
Technical Areas Of Interest
Interestingly enough, my strongest technical area of interest in computer science is strongly connected with biology: I have a deep interest in bioinformatics and computational biology. This topic is extremely interesting to me, so much so that I am going to acquire a minor in bioinformatics at Texas A&M. I'm interested in writing a software that emulates how proteins interact with each other, specifically for the purpose of understanding what proteins do. This will go beyond static comparisons with similar known proteins, which is what BLAST does, a software that already helps many microbiologists understand what proteins do. The aim of this software is to be a more comprehensive version of Harvard's MIST software, which assesses entire protein-protein interaction networks. Link to BLAST Link to MIST Source of where I got the image of DNA
Technical Skills
Most of my experience in web-development is in the back-end side of software engineering. As my resume lists, I've enhanced APIs by adding endpoints to them and contributing to the attributes of their models. Most of this work I've completed was in PHP, a language that is extremely popular for back-end development. (Source.) Since Delta, the company I've completed many internships for, is growing so quickly, the development of their APIs is heavily based on the agile model of web-development, meaning there's very little documentation for their APIs, if at all. This means I learned my skills in back-end development by searching through these large APIs such as Delta's Continental API and External Training API. I have also done light amounts of testing for back-end development, including unit-testing for individual functions. Link to Delta Defense LLC's website Source of where I got the image of code
