San Francisco Bay Area
My career goal is to build products that empower people.
- Leading Moonshots engineering organization. Current portfolio includes LinkedIn Games (https://www.linkedin.com/games/). - Leading AI native transformation efforts for engineering, product, and design
Led product and infra engineering for the My Network tab, including invitation systems and recommendation products such as People You May Know. Consistently delivered product and engineering strategies that contributed to x% of sessions and weekly active user growth over the years through new product features, engineering innovations, and AI relevance improvements. Grew org from 14 to 20+ engineers plus offshore contractors, developed and hired multiple tech leads and EMs. Built an AI infra team of 10 engineers and engineering manager. The group is responsible for all AI inference infrastructures to support 2 Growth AI teams (20+ AI engineers). Led team to significantly improve recommendation qualities by rebuilding the online AI inference layers to enable new online scoring and deep learning techniques. Developed strong collaboration with AI teams to deliver innovative AI products such as personalized recommendation cohort ranking. Led horizontal effort to fully automate production deployment for the linkedin.com web app. Increased deployments by 3x and reduced oncall efforts by 33% for 300+ engineers.
Hired and grew the team from 4 to 14 engineers including EM and Staff+ engineers direct reports. Built products and systems to deliver 100%+ growth for creators, events, and group products. Including jumpstart (0→1) growth for the brand-new LinkedIn Newsletter product.
Led UI development effort for LinkedIn China, including WeChat integration. Grew from software engineer to staff engineer between 2013 to 2017.