Brian Ko
Member Of Technical Staff at Latent
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ko is a machine learning-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Latent after three years as a Software Engineer at Loop. A UIUC computer science senior-turned-professional based in San Francisco, he blends research-minded ML work with production engineering to build practical, data-driven features. He contributes to open-source tooling for AI researchers—enhancing Lightning Bolts datamodules and adding dataset flags, improved loaders, and object-detection metrics like IoU and GIoU—showing attention to both usability and evaluation. Brian excels at turning research prototypes into reliable pipelines and has a knack for improving data handling subtleties that boost reproducibility in ML workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Korean
Github Skills (6)
pytorch10
machine-learning10
python10
image-processing9
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Lightning-Universe/lightning-bolts
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Toolbox of models, callbacks, and datasets for AI/ML researchers.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian focused on enhancing the `lightning-bolts` repository, a toolbox for AI/ML research. Their primary contributions involved adding features to datamodules, which included implementing flags for dataset manipulation (e.g., `drop_last`, `shuffle`, `pin_memory`) and improving data loading functionality within various datamodules like STL10, Kitti, MNIST, and FashionMNIST. The user also implemented and integrated metrics and loss functions (IoU and GIoU) related to object detection.
pytorchsupervised-learningfairness-mlai-mlcallbacks
briankosw/prettier-plugin-sort-imports
May 2023 - Mar 2024
Prettier plugin to sort your TypeScript imports
Contributions:17 releases, 19 PRs, 41 pushes in 10 months
importspluginprettiersort
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