Summary

Chris Daw

Student, WWU

I am originally from Palo Alto in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Currently, I am a computer science and music student at Western Washington University. I also participate in the WWU CS Mentors program tutoring students through pre-major class assignments.

If you would like a less colorful representation of this page, you can download my resume:

Resume!

Work Experience

WWU Computer Science

CS Support Group

Bellingham, WA
May 2017 - Present

Experience in a DevOps environment for Western Washington University’s Computer Science Department.

Develop and maintain utility software in a variety of languages used by the CS Support team.

Broaden familiarity with networking, project collaboration, and general computer knowledge.

Dell EMC

Software Engineering Intern

Seattle, WA
June - August 2019

Designed and implemented a feature for the logging system on a large-scale distributed storage platform to allow users to customize alerts.

Developed an intuitive test framework to allow manual testing and ease development of automated tests for the alerts system.

Stanford Electrical Engineering

Summer Intern

Stanford, CA
June - August 2015

Developed a user interface in Java and C for a genomic data compression algorithm.

Worked independently to aid Mikel Hernaez, a post-doctoral researcher.

Learned how to implement C programs in a Java context including interfacing through a network.

Education

Western Washington University

Expected Graduation 2020,
Computer Science Major,
Honors Program,
Music Minor,
Math Minor,
Honor Roll.

Coursework

Catalog for reference
Computer Science
  • CSCI 509 - Operating Systems
  • CSCI 510 - Automata and Formal Language Theory
  • CSCI 511 - Algorithms
  • CSCI 597J - Deep Learning
Math
  • MATH 224 - Multivariable Calculus
  • MATH 304 - Linear Algebra
  • MATH 331 - Differential Equations
Other
  • THTR 313 - Lighting Design
  • MUS 471 - Concert Choir

Extracurricular

Music
  • CS Mentor
  • A Capella Club President
  • Rebel Clef A Capella
  • University Tenor Bass Section Leader

Hobbies

Photography and Birding

In 2014 I got a DSLR camera and immediately started taking pictures. A little later, my girlfriend got me started with bird watching (lovingly referred to as birding). These two hobbies mix very well together as is shown by many of the pictures on my flickr. The quick, mobile nature of the subjects make it challinging yet very rewarding.
If you are have an ebird account and are interested in my checklists, here is a link to my ebird profile.

Tinkering

I have always enjoyed making neat, tangible things. Pictured here are an LED sign I made the summer before my freshman year at WWU and a question mark block from Mario that I made for a show at the Palo Alto Children's Theater.

Since elementary school I have had a fascination for yo-yos and puzzles like rubik's cubes. I have a collection of about a dozen of each. Here is a youtube video I made for a contest entry on Reddit with a few yo-yo tricks.