Summary
Cheng-ling Lai is an AI Engineer with 8 years of experience building practical deep learning systems from research prototypes to production deployments. He has a strong track record in custom model development, SDK/framework design, and integrating models into scalable services using Triton, FastAPI, gRPC and Docker. His work spans OCR, pose-to-detection adaptations for irregular PCBs, defect inspection, and robotics pick-and-place and lane-following systems—skills grounded in a 4.00 M.S. in Electrical Engineering and hands-on lab mentorship. Known for compact architectures and engineering-first thinking, he also builds tooling such as dataset operation frameworks and evaluation packages that accelerate team productivity. Based in Tainan, Taiwan, Cheng-ling combines academic rigor with production optimization, routinely improving training and inference performance while mentoring colleagues across projects.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering, GPA 4.00, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering, GPA 4.00 at 國立高雄大學