Alex Chung
Founder at Protege AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Chung is a founder and former hedge fund manager turned startup CEO with nine years of product and ML experience building high-throughput systems across fintech, social media, and web3. He led computer vision DataOps at Facebook (impacting Instagram, Oculus, Portal, and Ads) and launched open-source MLOps products at AWS for SageMaker, combining deep technical fluency with executive-level product strategy. Alex now runs Protege AI, which automates regulatory compliance for enterprise fintechs using a proprietary ShieldLlama model and an open-source regulatory knowledge graph, and previously built a crypto-incentivized 3D mapping project that won global hackathon awards. He blends an economist’s lens on incentives with hands-on ML and engineering skills, prioritizing social impact, ESG, and scalable philanthropy alongside rigorous execution. Known for setting a high bar for teams, he balances bias for action and critical thinking with respect and ethics in workforce practices.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyCornell University
Github Skills (200)
llmops10
computer-vision10
data-science10
azure-openai10
google-kubernetes-engine10
notebook10
menu10
pipeline10
mysql-client10
kubernetes10
load-balancing10
machine-learning10
minikube10
kubeflow10
websocket10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
awcchungster/mlsriracha
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 releases, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
awcchungster/mlctl
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
mlctl is the control plane for MLOps. It provides a CLI and a Python SDK for supporting key operations related to MLOps, such as "model training", "model hosting" etc.
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
hostingpythonmodel-trainingmachine-learningmlops
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