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Christopher Zahrah

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Austin, Texas, United States

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  • athenahealth
    Senior Software Engineer
    athenahealth
    Mar 2019 - Current (7 years 6 months)
    Clinical Note Intelligence (Ambient Documentation – LLM) • Led backend development on athenahealth's ambient clinical documentation initiative, integrating GPT-4 and fine-tuned medical LLMs to auto-generate structured SOAP notes from physician-patient audio transcripts. • Designed and maintained a prompt engineering pipeline that normalized raw ASR output before LLM inference, reducing hallucination rate in clinical assertions by ~30% in offline evaluations. • Built a human-in-the-loop review service in Python/FastAPI that surfaced model-generated drafts to clinicians inside the EHR workflow, tracking acceptance/rejection signals for downstream fine-tuning. • Collaborated with the ML platform team to containerize inference workloads on AWS
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    Software Engineer
    The Weather Company
    Apr 2017 - Mar 2019 (2 years)
    Wx Insights API (Severe Weather Event Scoring) • Developed a REST API (Spring Boot / Java) that served real-time severe weather risk scores to enterprise clients such as airlines and logistics providers, processing ~50,000 requests per hour at peak. • Integrated an in-house ML model scoring weather event severity using historical NWS data and radar imagery features; wrapped model inference in a caching layer to keep median response time under 80ms. • Built internal replay tooling in Python to run historical weather events against the scoring model, enabling the data science team to evaluate model updates without touching production traffic. • Contributed to front-end dashboards in React/Redux that visualized event alerts and risk scores for
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  • The University of Texas at Austin
    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Jan 2013 - Dec 2016 (4 years)