Kuan Lu
Engineering Manager at TikTok
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKuan Lu is an engineering manager and ML systems leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling Cloud/AI products across multimodal domains. He has driven end-to-end delivery from model research to production at Microsoft—shipping foundation models, serverless inference platforms, and agentic search workflows—and now leads generative AI and vision platform efforts at TikTok. His work emphasizes operational rigor: revamping throttling and backpressure to improve cluster health, automating API and SDK release pipelines, and designing low-latency, cost-efficient inference stacks that reduced GPU spend by an order of magnitude. Kuan pairs hands-on technical depth (CUDA kernels, PyTorch migrations, large-scale benchmarking suites) with people leadership, routinely growing small teams into high-impact orgs. Based in Los Gatos and Berkeley-educated, he combines research pedigree with pragmatic product outcomes, including bringing Florence variants into production and achieving measurable ARR and performance gains. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning prototype model work into robust, secure services that preserve access controls with minimal overhead.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
microsoft10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
api10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
azure-machine-learning9
notebook9
sdk9
machine-learning8
data-science7
deep-learning7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lucas95123/TowerDefense
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 20 pushes in 18 days
CS284FluidSim/FluidSim_SPH
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:47 commits, 31 pushes in 4 months
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