Felix Haba

San Francisco, CA

I'm Felix, an engineer living in San Francisco. I moved from Barcelona to Chicago when I was 19 to study in Northwestern University, where I graduated with a B.S. in Physics and Economics, and a MS in Computer Science. In a past life I represented Spain in the International Biology Olympiad. I am originally from a beautiful town in the Mediterranean called Palafrugell.

In my free time, I boulder, hike, explore nature and hang out with friends, and when inspiration hits, I hack on accessmrf.com which builds on a thesis idea I worked on during undergrad. I also love to read. I enjoy many genres, including biographies, fantasy books (hi Brandon Sanderson), fiction and non-fiction, anything I can get my hands on. My favorite game is foosball, but I don't get to play it often.

Experience

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  Nooks

  Jun 2024 – Present

  Product Engineer

  Building the AI-powered sales platform for outbound teams.

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  Citadel

  Sep 2022 – Dec 2022

  Software Engineer Intern · Credit Quantitative Development

  Rearchitected pricing engine with asyncio, reducing p95 latency by 30x.

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  Nuna Healthcare

  Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

  Software Engineer Intern · Data Foundation

  Designed data lake architecture and built multi-tenant data ingestion pipelines on AWS.

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  Kleiner Perkins

  Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

  Engineering Fellow

  Selected for the KP Engineering Fellowship program.

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  Amazon Web Services

  Mar 2022 – Jun 2022

  Software Development Engineer Intern · Elastic MapReduce

  Built feature release service, JupyterLab extensions, and EMR Console.

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  Computational Photography Lab

  Research Assistant · NLP & Computational Photography

  Ran LLM experiments on multi-GPU setups and automated hologram data collection hardware.

Education

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  Northwestern University

  MS Computer Science · BS Physics & Economics

  McCormick School of Engineering. Kellogg Certificate in Managerial Analytics

Recent Reads

• A Gentleman in Moscow
• Project Hail Mary
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny
• Database Design for Mere Mortals

Projects

FirstBranch.ai. Conversational intelligence for Congress: I processed all of the congressional hearings over the last 2 years and built a viewer experience focused on serendipity and discovery of new ideas. The clustering of topics and search are powered by document chunk embeddings, and large-scale LLM summarization with timestamp citations is used to consistently find the most relevant moments. I also wrote an engineering post here.

AccessMRF. A large-scale data catalog that aims to make available machine readable files containing medical insurer pricing. I used this dataset for my healthcare economics thesis.

Hippo. Medical service cost catalog using hospital price transparency data to provide gross charge estimates of IL and CA hospitals. The data is scraped online from every hospital website, converted to a SQLite table and search capabilities are powered via OpenAI GPT-3 and property filters. I also delivered a talk on how I built it at Wildhacks 2023, my college's hackathon.

Instra.ai. Surgical instrument detection on images using transfer learning on YoloV5. Deployed on a webapp using AWS Lambda and on NVIDIA Jetson hardware. I also wrote a report for course credit here.

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Contact

Send me an email at me@felixhaba.com or follow me on GitHub and LinkedIn.