Matthew Wen
Software Engineer at Yelp
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Wen is a software engineer specializing in applied generative AI, currently contributing to SFT and RL efforts for Amazon Nova as an SDE II after progressing through Alexa AI. With a Computer Engineering degree from Purdue (3.88 GPA) and a decade of hands-on experience from internships to full-time roles, he blends low-level systems knowledge with modern ML tooling. He has a track record of teaching and mentoring as a UTA for data structures, C programming, and circuits, which complements his product-focused work on production AI features. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings practical cloud and embedded experience from roles at John Deere and Morey, plus a curiosity for endurance running and team-oriented projects like Purdue’s CAM2 drone team. Notably, he moved quickly from SDE I to SDE II within Amazon while shifting focus into cutting-edge RL-based model alignment.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (58)
dsl10
google-calendar-api9
image-processing9
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
tabview9
visual-studio-code9
typescript9
gpu9
client-server9
c-library9
react8
halide8
discord-bot8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mwenclubhouse/notion-recurring-tasks
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Handling tasks the repeat on specific days.
Contributions:9 commits, 48 PRs, 26 pushes in 9 months
handling
mwenclubhouse/python-queueup-bot
Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
Discord Bot Used for ECE 264 Spring 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 57 commits, 106 PRs in 1 year 3 months
discord-bot
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