Alan Bi
Software Engineer at Optiver
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Bi is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack and computer vision systems, currently on the engineering team at Optiver. A Duke CS and statistics student with internships at Meta and Microsoft, he pairs production engineering skills in Java, Python, and TypeScript with research experience from the University of Washington. He is the creator and ML engineer behind Detecto, an open-source PyTorch-based object detection library that has attracted 500+ stars and 100k+ downloads, and has contributed robust testing, validation, and visualization fixes. Alan also co-directed HackDuke, growing a 500+ attendee hackathon program, demonstrating his capability to lead technical communities as well as deliver polished developer tools.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Duke UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mercer Island High School
Github Skills (6)
object-detection10
computer-vision10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
python10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alankbi/detecto
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
Build fully-functioning computer vision models with PyTorch
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:12 releases, 3 reviews, 130 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the development and testing of computer vision models within the repository. Their commits focused on adding unit tests for utility functions, implementing validation steps during model training, and fixing scaling bugs in the video visualization module. Furthermore, the user enabled the specification of custom labels and refined the predict method to produce more usable output.
pytorchpythonvisiondeep-learningcomputer-vision
alankbi/alankbi.github.io
May 2017 - Jan 2025
My Personal Website
Contributions:34 PRs, 176 pushes, 28 branches in 7 years 9 months
reactnextjs
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