James Liu

Machine Learning, Distributed System

San Jose, California, United States

About

I am passionate about understanding, extending, and applying the capabilities of LLMs and other forms of Predictive, Generative AI and Agents. Specialties: deep learning, reinforcement learning, machine learning, algorithms, computational advertising, recommender system, information retrieval, distributed system, Amazon web service

Experience

  • Co-Founder at Stealth
    2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    - designed and developed an autonomous financial agent system in training and inference, which incorporates machine learning techniques and LLMs.

  • Software Engineer at Amazon
    Dec 2012 - Aug 2019 · 6 yrs 9 mos

    Advertising Science predictive ads bidder * problem definition, metrics definition, experiment design, online/offline data analysis and visualization * feature engineering, features selections, transformations and model selections * built end-to-end distributed trainers, customized objective functions and tune hyper parameters * online model deployment and inference Advertising Exchange Platform * built advertising experimentation framework - online A/B experiments * built advertising exchange platform - low latency(<90ms), high volume(>Mqps) * built advertising identity system across multiple regions with NoSQL

  • Lead Engineer at Turn
    Dec 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

    * collaborated with scientists to apply predictive models for targeting/scoring framework in Ads Servers * designed and developed scalable User Profile Servers (Dynamo like) for geo/demographic/behavioral targeting between data centers from both online and offline clustered HDFS replicator data through message bus (300K QPS, 10ms)

  • Technical Lead at Cisco
    Jul 2010 - Jan 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Search and Data Analytics Cloud Service * lead team(10) to design and build multi-shards, fault-tolerant search farms with Lucene for searching user profiles, document and meeting minutes

  • BroadVision (10 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Staff Engineer
      2001 - 2010 · 9 yrs

      Core and Platform Group * One-to-One personalization servers ( Highly scalable, C++ multi-threaded, JNI, Embedded JVM, Java multi-threaded) * Load Balancers (C++), Cache Framework, Clustered Servers, SaaS

    • Senior Principal Consultant
      Jan 2000 - Apr 2001 · 1 yr 4 mos

      One-to-One Personalization Servers