Christian Hadiwinoto
Language Engineer at Apple
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Hadiwinoto is a Language Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore and nine years of experience applying statistical machine translation and broader NLP techniques to production systems. He has moved from academic research and a research fellowship into industry roles driving search and language features at Shopee and now contributes to Siri at Apple. His background blends deep research in SMT with hands-on machine learning engineering for large-scale search and conversational systems, bridging model development and deployable solutions. Based in Singapore, he brings cross-cultural engineering experience and a track record of turning complex linguistic models into practical product features. An often-overlooked strength is his end-to-end perspective—from log-level data extraction and tooling in early internships to optimizing user-facing language experiences at global tech companies.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Informatics/Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Informatics/Computer Science at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (29)
machine-translation10
named-entity-recognition10
in-progress10
language-processing10
datasets10
natural-language-understanding9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
sentence-similarity8
bert8
transformers7
sentence-embeddings7
transformer-architecture7
gpt6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chrhad/subword-nmt
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Unsupervised Word Segmentation for Neural Machine Translation and Text Generation
Contributions:26 commits, 30 pushes in 1 year 3 months
neural-machine-translationword-segmentationnatural-language-generationdeep-learningmachine-translation
nusnlp/neuralreord-aaai2017
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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