Harry Gao

Founding engineer at Paraform, recent grad from WashU. Loves solving high-leverage and interesting problems. Feel free to reach out via twitter!

Experiences

Paraform • March 2025 - Present

Building the future of hiring.

Styx • November 2024 - March 2025

AI agents for talent sourcing and vetting. Backed by LeapYear.

Diffusion, NeRFs, INRs, image compression, inverse problems.

Capital One • June 2024 - August 2024

Built a data logging pipeline for the ETL teams within Card Partnerships using AWS Lambda, S3, and Snowflake.

Optum AI • June 2023 - August 2023

Built an evalutation framework for Question-Answering LLMs.

Teaching assistant for Intro to Machine Learning.

FastAPI, React.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Azure

Messaging web app that detects message context and auto-generates relevant images/diagrams using DALL-E 3.

Python, PyTorch, React.js, Flask, Jupyter Notebook

Generates Monet-style paintings from real-world images using a CycleGAN model.

Python, React.js, Flask, Node.js, Express.js

Presentation preparation app that transcribes and advises you on your presentation in real time. First place overall at HackWashu 2024.

My custom keyboard firmware (forked from qmk_firmware).

IEEE ISBI • 2025

A novel method for training diffusion models on noisy measurements without any high-quality reference images.

IEEE ICASSP • 2024

A novel regularization term for image compression using implicit neural representations.