Michael Sun
Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure Program Lead
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sun is a Staff Software Engineer and Data Infrastructure Program Lead based in San Francisco with 11 years of engineering experience and 6+ years focused on building scalable data platforms. At Asana he designs and maintains high-throughput dataset tooling, data lake consolidation, access control, and privacy/security systems while shaping streaming pipeline architectures. His background in adversarial ML research at MIT CSAIL and hands-on internships at Google and Microsoft give him a strong mix of principled research and production engineering discipline. He routinely bridges deep technical work and product impact—having led product-focused engineering at startups as well as rigorous ML research—and is comfortable translating complex algorithmic ideas into reliable, auditable infrastructure. Known for combining mathematical rigor (MEng in Robustness in Deep Learning, MIT) with practical system-building, he brings a security- and privacy-first lens to data platform design.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Robustness in Deep Learning , Master of Engineering - MEng Robustness in Deep Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (14)
adversarial-learning9
mnist9
explore8
robustness7
adversarial-attacks6
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
pytorch5
neural-network3
python-client1
python1
api1
tinder1
api-client1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
1michaelsun7/PokeMe
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
1michaelsun7/1michaelsun7.github.io
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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