Benny Hwang
Principal Software Engineer - AI Platform
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBenny Hwang is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building large-scale, production ML and deployment platforms at companies like Atlassian, Google, and AWS. He has driven measurable impact—reducing Jira deployment times by 80%, boosting ML engineering productivity tenfold with a new training platform, and improving AWS network compliance and outage mitigation significantly. Comfortable across backend systems, CI/CD, computer vision, and ML, he combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, and on-call reliability. Benny also co-founded HOBI, serves as a technical interviewer for Karat, and has taught and tutored university courses, reflecting a strong commitment to mentoring and developer productivity. He pairs formal graduate training in IT and computer vision nanodegrees with practical robotics and embedded deployment experience, often building tooling and test infrastructure from scratch. Known for tackling cross-functional challenges, he favors pragmatic, scalable solutions that translate research and algorithms into reliable production services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Online Certification, Deep Learning Specialization by Deeplearning.ai, Online Certification, Deep Learning Specialization by Deeplearning.ai at CourseraNanodegree, Computer Vision, Nanodegree, Computer Vision at UdacityUNSW SydneyThe University of SydneyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Burnside High School
English, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (69)
spotify10
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linux9
golang9
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windows9
command-line-tool9
migration9
sbcl9
discord-bot9
command-line9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
abiramen/comp1521-22t3
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
abiramen/ctfd-nebula-theme
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
A slightly space-inspired CTFd theme.
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 9 months
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