Leo Lu
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Lu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building deep learning systems, now focusing on billion-scale computer vision applications and computation optimization. Currently at Pinterest after four years developing visual search and dynamic product ad systems at Snap, he combines research-grade model tuning and NAS experience with production deployment skills across GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Triton and CUDA. His background includes hands-on low-level acceleration—implementing CUDA/C++ custom layers that yielded 12x speedups and dramatic memory reductions—and delivering mobile-ready models and visualization tools at SenseTime. With a CMU master’s in computer engineering and a practical fluency in Python, Go, Java and C/C++, he thrives on turning state-of-the-art research into scalable engineering products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (56)
action-recognition10
translation9
person-detection9
python9
machine-learning9
gluon9
semantic-segmentation9
deep-learning9
computer-vision9
nlp8
drug-discovery8
object-detection8
contrastive-learning8
forecasting8
pose-estimation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chunhanl/ElanGuard_Public
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
(Academia Sinica / Computer Vision / Deep Learning) Object Detection, Person Reid, Face Reid
Contributions:2 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
person-reidvisionpersondeep-learningperson-detection
wakamama/PnD_Encryption
May 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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