Evan Chow
Software Engineer at uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Chow is a software engineer and data scientist in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building prediction, ranking, and optimization systems for high-scale platforms like Snapchat and Uber. Trained at Princeton in Economics, Statistics & Machine Learning, he combines rigorous quantitative modeling with production-grade software engineering to drive data-informed product decisions. His background includes fraud and outlier detection at Salesforce and payments analytics at PayPal, giving him a broad view of risk, trust, and marketplace dynamics. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he bridges model development and dispatch-level systems that affect real-time operations. Off the clock he’s a classically trained and jazz pianist with nearly two decades of practice, a discipline that informs his attention to craft and pattern recognition. Fluent in Mandarin study from Beijing Normal University and active in both software and data projects, he brings a rare mix of technical depth and creative perspective.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political ScienceA.B., A.B. at Princeton University
Russian, Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
music-information-retrieval10
music-generation10
music10
jazz10
quantitative9
machine-learning8
python8
science7
data-science5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
evancchow/SVM
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 28 days
evancchow/jazzml
Apr 2014 - Apr 2016
A (very incomplete) project that combines machine learning with music.
Contributions:159 commits, 1 push in 2 years
pythonmusic-generationjazzmachine-learningmusic
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