Brian Lu
Practical Chaos at Scale
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I'm a Computer Engineering student at Purdue University Main Campus.
In the past I wrote and maintained navigation and scheduling software for competitive robotics.
Now, I'm working on quickly and accurately parsing and structuring 1,000s of chemical Safety Data Sheet PDFs for Merck.
I have a passion for homelabbing, and own and operate the Shamrock Cluster.
It tries to be as production-ready as possible by leveraging high-availability technologies, filesystem encryption, and ensuring mutual TLS authentication every step of the way.
Experience
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Merck Sharp & Dohme
Student Researcher
OngoingArchitected Safety Data Sheet (SDS) parsing and insights software with team
Software cuts down on hours of work per day reading SDS documents, is currently being integrated
Wrote low-level PDF parsing engine to extract document hierarchies, fields, and images
Created OpenCV-based classifier to accurately detect GHS pictograms
Developed automated PDF templating pipeline to create reports of generated insights
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High Oak Robotics
Robotics Coach
Wrote and maintained Sequoia asynchronous scheduling library
Teaching of robotics control system concepts to new team members
Bootstrapped sensor fusion and navigation technology stack
