Bob Fang
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolBob Fang is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with six years of experience building production-grade speech recognition and cognitive AI solutions at IBM. He blends full-stack engineering with a data science background—holding an MIS from Carnegie Mellon focused on business intelligence and analytics—to deliver scalable AI products and client-facing speech offerings. His roles span hands-on cloud development, technical solution architecture, and data-driven prototyping, including work that powered question-answering for media content like TED.com. Known for turning complex unstructured text problems into usable analytics and interactive visualizations, he also brings early enterprise BI and automation experience from Target that informs his systems-thinking approach. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research, prototyping, and production, accelerating AI features from concept to client deployment.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering at Purdue UniversityMaster of Information Systems Management, Business Intelligence Data Analytics, Master of Information Systems Management, Business Intelligence Data Analytics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityNan Hua Secondary School
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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610reached
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Github Skills (53)
alexa-skills-kit10
ibm-watson10
ibm-cloud9
speech-to-text9
watson9
speech9
music8
audio8
jumpstart8
terraform-registry8
aws8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
wave7
waveform7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/document-extraction-toolkit
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
UI for extracting data from pdf files using watsonx prompts
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
bobfang/speech-javascript-sdk
Feb 2022 - Feb 2024
Library for using the IBM Watson Speech to Text and Text to Speech services in web browsers.
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
watson-speechibm-watson-speechibm-watson-speech-to-textbrowsersspeech-to-text
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