Max Lei
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at System1
Mountlake Terrace, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Lei is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems for AdTech and large-scale forecasting. He has led end-to-end initiatives—from embedding-based audience ranking and deep RPC prediction models to low-latency serving platforms—delivering measurable revenue uplifts and 10x latency improvements. Max combines strong ML modeling (XGBoost/LightGBM, DeepFM, VAEs, attention models) with pragmatic infrastructure design using tools like MLflow, DVC, Triton, Docker, and AWS/EKS to ship reliable real-time pipelines. He mentors rising data scientists and has a track record of translating research-grade ideas (e.g., low-power spike detection from his graduate work) into production impact. Based in Mountlake Terrace, WA, he’s driven by solving complex, revenue-critical problems in advertising systems and spotting operational issues before they become outages.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Chinese, English
Github Skills (105)
opencv10
python10
image-processing10
deep-learning10
computer-vision10
ocr10
multilingual9
udp9
miui9
text-detection9
handwriting-recognition9
synthesis9
bug-reporting9
tcp9
ocr-python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JefferyBoy/pictures
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:175 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
JefferyBoy/android-mvvm
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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