Lee Shih-gian
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Porch Group
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLee Shih-gian is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Seattle with 16 years of experience building large-scale, production ML and software systems across enterprise and media domains. He has led end-to-end ML initiatives—introducing NLP and computer vision pipelines, deploying Porch’s first Python model service with BentoML, and architecting feature reuse via Feast—to boost data coverage, recall, and cost-efficiency. At Porch he designed an LLM-based PDF extractor that quadrupled annotation throughput and rebuilt prediction logging for scalable retraining; at Getty Images he helped build image scoring pipelines and a Knowledge Graph to improve search. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he revived a stalled conservation platform (LINC) as a volunteer, restoring full functionality in six months. He combines deep applied ML expertise from a Georgia Tech master’s with a pragmatic, deployment-first mindset and a history of improving legacy systems and test coverage—even contributing time-focused fixes to a popular open-source datepicker.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Specialization in Machine Learning (and Computational Perception), Master's Degree, Computer Science, Specialization in Machine Learning (and Computational Perception) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMBA, Management Information Systems, MBA, Management Information Systems at University of South Dakota
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Github Skills (12)
datepicker10
javascript10
testing10
rails8
ruby-on-rails8
apache-spark6
machine-learning6
artificial-intelligence6
janusgraph6
python6
google-cloud-dataproc6
scala6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
timcharper/calendar_date_select
Mar 2010 - Jun 2012
A popular and flexible JavaScript DatePicker for RubyOnRails (and others)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lee focused on improving the default time implementation within the JavaScript DatePicker library. Their contributions included refactoring code to include a use_time flag and modifying the tests to better reflect the functionality. The user also made several improvements to the specifications and test coverage for the default time functionality, enhancing its accuracy. These changes appear to be focused on the core logic and behavior of the date picker's time-related features.
rubyonrailsjavascriptdatepickerflexible
linc-lion/linc-cv
Sep 2021 - Aug 2023
Lion Guardians Open Source Lion Identification Service
Contributions:16 reviews, 9 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 10 months
lionidentification
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