Summary
Rui Peng is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience and a 7+ year track record at top-tier tech companies including Meta, Uber, and Atlassian, specializing in high-performance, large-scale backend and distributed systems. He has spent 5+ years architecting multi-tenant, fault-tolerant services that power mission-critical pipelines—at Uber his team processed billions of events daily and at Meta he reduced capacity spend by hundreds of millions through performance and demand-control work. Rui blends systems-level C++/CUDA and Python expertise from PyTorch and ML infrastructure with Golang and message-queue engineering for production automation platforms. He mentors teams, drives technical excellence, and has a strong academic foundation in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon, with early research contributions in computer vision and genomics. Based in Redmond, he brings a rare mix of open-source impact on PyTorch and deep operational experience tuning TB-scale training and serving clusters.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Beijing 101 Middle School
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Toronto
Master’s Degree Machine Learning, Master’s Degree Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese