Arun Wongprommoon
Founding Machine Learning Research Engineer at Phonic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArun Wongprommoon is a machine learning research engineer and MIT-trained computer scientist with a decade of hands-on experience spanning competitive programming, mobile development, and speech and vision research. As the first employee at an audio foundation model startup, he has taken models from data sourcing and architecture tweaks to production-ready inference and evaluation pipelines. His background includes internships at Robinhood and Duolingo, MIT/CSAIL speech-translation research, and building production Android apps—demonstrating a rare blend of production engineering and cutting-edge ML research. Fluent in PyTorch, Kotlin/Android, and multimodal ML, he combines linguistics training with signal processing intuition to tackle spoken-language and audio problems. Arun is driven by building everyday tools that join global perspectives and create social impact, often prototyping unconventional projects born from curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mahidol Wittayanusorn SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPG Computer Science, PG Computer Science at Phillips Exeter Academy
English, Thai, French
Github Skills (8)
maze10
react6
science5
frontend5
machine-learning4
python4
content-management4
content-management-system2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rayaburong/AmbientDetector
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
pythonsciencemachine-learning
arun-wpm/ImproveTheNewsApp
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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