Matthew Tang
Member Of Technical Staff at Decagon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Tang is a machine learning engineer with nine years of experience who currently builds AI agents at Decagon in New York. He has blended startup and product-side experience—co-founding a YC-backed language-learning startup and delivering recommendation and content-ranking models at TikTok. His background spans research and engineering on generative image models, LLM reranking for recommender systems, and ML infrastructure for monetization, reflecting a strong bridge between research and production. Matthew holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from UIUC and has repeatedly interned at industry-leading teams, bringing both rapid prototyping and systems thinking to complex ML problems. Notably, he pairs hands-on model research with pragmatic deployment experience, making him comfortable shipping end-to-end ML features in high-throughput environments.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at University of Illinois Laboratory High School
Github Skills (3)
machine-learning9
nodejs3
javascript3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mhtang2/TangStats
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
i read quizbowl packets
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes in 6 months
javascriptnodejspacketsquizbowl
mhtang2/mhtang2.github.io
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 115 pushes in 4 months
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