Chia-wei Chen
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolChia-wei Chen is a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 10 years of experience specializing in ML training and serving infrastructure at scale. At Pinterest he led modernization of Kubernetes-based ML platforms (EKS, KubeRay, Kubeflow, Volcano) and built GenAI serving from 0→1, enabling hundreds of teams to run distributed PyTorch training and inference across thousands of GPUs. He’s credited with multi-million dollar annual savings through control- and data-plane optimizations (Ray lifecycle, AZ-aware scheduling, EFA/RDMA) and drove adoption of fault-tolerant ML workflows across 80+ projects. Comfortable both as a tech lead and hands-on engineer, he also owned Ray orchestration and Jupyter tooling powering thousands of daily ML jobs and users. With an MS in Computer Science and early research in recommendation systems, he combines deep academic grounding with pragmatic systems engineering to accelerate model development lifecycles.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electronics Engineering at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonExchanged student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Exchanged student, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (6)
pinterest9
docker6
autoscaling4
kubernetes4
k8s4
refactor3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
WeiCheng1992/BGgod
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
WeiCheng1992/Heap-management
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 days
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