Summary
Pinhao Chen is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience building production-grade ML, search, and data systems across e-commerce and SaaS domains. He combines strong system architecture skills with hands-on work in Spark/Scala ETL, feature stores, real-time serving, and LLM/RAG applications, driving measurable business impact like CTR and engagement gains. At ShopBack he led search quality, spell correction, and multi-tenancy migration efforts; at Appier he built cost-efficient keyword pipelines and image summarization for auto-tagging. Comfortable from data lakes to model deployment (Airflow, Feast, Kubeflow, BentoML), he also optimizes algorithms for runtime gains and mentors teams on practical ML lifecycles. A Columbia Data Science alumnus based in New Taipei, he’s notable for turning research-grade NLP ideas into low-latency, scalable services that improve product metrics.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Columbia University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
Chinese, English, Spanish