Jisung Hwang
Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning at Metropolis Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJisung Hwang is a Senior Engineering Manager in Machine Learning with nine years of experience building production ML systems from research prototypes to deployment at startups and national labs. He led the creation of Metropolis Technologies’ first proprietary computer vision payments platform and has managed cross-functional initiatives spanning Data, ML, Frontend, Backend, and DevOps through Series B→C. His background blends deep research—RL and GNNs for real-time power systems at Argonne and adversarial CV work at NAVER—with hands-on engineering, enabling 100x speedups in training/control through GPU-friendly reformulations. Jisung is comfortable as a hands-on tech lead and org-level manager, driving OKRs while shipping edge and cloud solutions. He also brings quantitative rigor from degrees and projects in statistics, finance, and algorithmic trading, including building high-performance backtesting and ETL systems as a founder. Based in San Francisco, he combines operational leadership with a knack for turning complex ML research into scalable, interpretable products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Statistics & Industrial Engineering (Double Major), Bachelor's Degree Statistics & Industrial Engineering (Double Major) at Seoul National UniversityVisiting Student Coursework in Financial Statistics Managerial Finance, Visiting Student Coursework in Financial Statistics Managerial Finance at Harvard UniversityMaster's degree Statistics, Master's degree Statistics at University of Chicago
Korean, English
Github Skills (47)
python10
variational-autoencoder10
machine-learning10
cgan10
nvidia10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
mnist10
neural-network10
generative-model10
data-science9
ml9
autoencoder9
stylegan9
tensorrt9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
niffler92/Bandit
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 months
bandit-algorithmsbandit
niffler92/SNGAN
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
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