Christian Acuña
AI Engineering & Product Leader, AI Innovation & Data Applications
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Acuña is an AI engineering and product leader with a decade of experience building low-latency, high-availability streaming data platforms for analytics and ML at scale. He has driven technical strategy and delivery across fast-growing companies—most recently leading AI innovation and data applications at Superhuman after scaling Grammarly’s ingestion, feature store, and lakehouse to process tens of billions of events daily. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and people leadership, he blends Scala/Python development, Spark/Kafka streaming, Databricks/Delta Lake, and production AWS architectures to shrink analytical latency from hours to minutes. He’s repeatedly delivered measurable cost and performance gains—eg, P99 improvements, massive runtime reductions, and lower disk utilization—while translating complex systems to non-technical stakeholders. Fluent in cross-cultural settings from studies in Asia and based in Los Angeles, he pairs technical depth with product-minded execution.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
International Chinese Language Program (ICLP) Chinese Studies, International Chinese Language Program (ICLP) Chinese Studies at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor’s Degree History, Bachelor’s Degree History at Reed CollegeInter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies UC Berkeley Chinese, Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies UC Berkeley Chinese at Tsinghua UniversityU.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Korean Language and Literature, U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
javascript8
css8
frontend7
collections6
web-developer6
react6
virtual-reality5
threejs4
modular4
babel-plugin3
charting2
declarative2
speech-recognition1
speech1
frame1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
christian-acuna/react-vr-museum
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:87 commits, 28 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 month
realityartvirtual-realityexclusivethreejs
christian-acuna/portfolio
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:28 PRs, 28 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 3 months
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