Summary
Kunyi Lu is a Sr. Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with 8 years of experience building production-grade ML-driven backend systems and distributed services. She combines deep research credentials—an MS in Machine Learning and a T-PAMI publication—with hands-on expertise in Java, Python, C++, and a broad set of AWS services to deliver low-latency, high-throughput systems. At Amazon Ads she led the design and implementation of a real-time ad serving platform and automated ML training/publishing pipelines that contributed over $1B in annualized revenue. Her background spans academia and industry, from video frame inpainting research to shipping vendor-facing serverless platforms and computer-vision products, and she holds two patents in ML/DL. Pragmatic and metrics-focused, she blends algorithmic rigor with scalable engineering to move models from research into revenue-generating production.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree EECS, Bachelor's degree EECS at Wuhan University
Master of Science - MS Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Machine Learning at University of Michigan
Exchange Student Business/Commerce, Exchange Student Business/Commerce at University of Cambridge
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tsinghua University High School
English, Chinese