Sean Chang
Senior Principal ML Engineer (Director) at Atlassian
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Chang is a Senior Principal ML Engineer and research-driven leader with 11 years of experience applying statistical science and machine learning to search, vision, and recommendation systems across major tech companies. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistical Science from Duke and has driven multimodal LLMs, on-device vision, and generative AI safety work at Atlassian, Coupang, Meta, Microsoft, and others. Sean combines publication-grade research (ICCV/CVPR/NeurIPS/AAAI work) with product impact—shipping large-scale retrieval, search relevance, and recommender systems in production. He’s comfortable moving between low-level modeling and cross-functional engineering leadership, often bridging research rigor with deployable, efficient systems. Based in the Bay Area, he quietly blends deep statistics with practical ML engineering, evidenced by repeated leadership of both academic and production initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Statistical Science, Ph.D. Statistical Science at Duke UniversityNational Taiwan University
Spanish, French, Chinese
Github Skills (63)
crf8
softmax7
neural-style-transfer7
part-of-speech-tagger6
lstm6
sdk6
backpropagation6
simplify6
chunking6
sequence5
naming5
python-client5
pos5
storage5
sequence-labeling5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sc268/seanschang.github.io
Nov 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 4 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 years 2 months
CorneliaSeanWedding/CorneliaSeanWedding.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:139 commits, 148 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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