Hung-chun Chen is a backend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building systems at Meta after a high-impact tenure on Gmail at Google. He designs and ships scalable backend infrastructure and ML-driven pipelines, having integrated image outpainting models, end-to-end human review pipelines, and lightweight ML signals that lifted Gmail Promo Tab engagement measurably. Comfortable across C++ and Python, he also applies prompt engineering and LLM classifiers to boost extraction recall and automate annotation workflows. His research background in generative models (Academia Sinica) and an MEng in EECS from UC Berkeley give him a rare blend of production-grade engineering and ML research intuition. Based in New York, he’s known for independently taking projects from prototype to monitored production while aligning cross-functional teams on safety and quality constraints.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng EECS, Master of Engineering - MEng EECS at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree Electromechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electromechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University
Contributions:16 reviews, 49 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years
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