Alvin Deng
Angel Investor at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvin Deng is a Member of Technical Staff and seasoned machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across startups and large tech companies. He has led 0-to-1 recommendation and safety systems at Discord, improving detection throughput and engagement, and now focuses on productizing data curation research at DatologyAI to make model training more efficient. His background spans applied research and full-stack delivery—from panoptic segmentation and video quality work to graph clustering and LLM memorization research at EleutherAI. An active angel investor in early-stage ML startups, he combines product intuition with rigorous experimentation to turn prototypes into high-impact features. Notably, he has driven cross-functional technical leadership that translated into measurable business outcomes (e.g., large detection lift and sizable CS cost savings) while keeping one foot in cutting-edge research. Based in San Francisco, he blends academic training from UT Austin with a pragmatic track record of shipping ML-driven products at scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (70)
huggingface10
deep-learning10
golang10
evaluation-framework10
cli10
data-science10
go10
tensorflow10
docker10
docker-cli10
evaluation10
mixture-of-experts10
machine-learning10
facebook-messenger-bot10
multi-task-learning10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alvin319/alvin319.github.io
Jul 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
alvin319/book-notes
Nov 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:51 commits, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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