Summary
Gavin Hu is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable, production machine learning systems for large consumer platforms. At Snap he single-handedly designed and implemented MasterChef, a real-time TensorFlow ranking pipeline that launched globally and materially improved engagement, and later led a small team to build Snapfeast, a high-throughput feature service serving billions of items with low latency. His background at Microsoft/MSR spans applied research and engineering—scaling DNN trainers and online serving for Bing and accelerating RNN training—bridging deep research insights with pragmatic productionization. Based in Los Angeles, he combines systems-level thinking, hands-on implementation, and a track record of turning experimental ML research into core infrastructure used by millions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Tongji University
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University