Carmenย Lai
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Self-Employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCarmen Lai is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across biotech, consumer generative AI, and Fortune 500 R&D. She has led end-to-end GenAI projectsโarchitecting image-text transformer training (CLIP, SigLIP 2), large-scale human preference collection pipelines, and multidisciplinary teams that scaled a single-year pilot into a broader initiative. Her background spans clinical genomics and pandemic-response ML at Color, applied neuroscience modeling, and stealth startup productization work using LangChain and Hugging Face. Comfortable moving between research and production, she combines deep technical chops in model training and data infra with product-minded prototyping (RAG chatbots, human-in-the-loop systems). Not obvious from titles alone: she started in neuroscience research coding perceptual experiments and still leverages that experimental mindset to design human-centered ML pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Academy of Math Science and Applied Technology, High School Academy of Math Science and Applied Technology at Ed W. Clark High SchoolB.S. Neuroscience Graduation with Distinction, B.S. Neuroscience Graduation with Distinction at Duke University
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Github contributions (5)
ocarmieo/ocarmieo.github.io
Sep 2016 - Aug 2020
My personal website
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
reactnextjs
ocarmieo/github-trends
Dec 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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