Shannon Phu
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShannon Phu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building and shipping large-scale recommender systems, NLP models, and LLM services. At Discord they led the AI chat summaries initiative—training and serving an LLM that scaled to 25M servers, saved the company $2M/year, and drove major engagement gains—before joining Meta to continue production ML work. Their background spans the full ML stack from data collection and instrumentation to model training, serving, and monitoring, with deep experience in productionizing pipelines on PySpark/Databricks and Azure. Earlier roles at Microsoft focused on multilingual knowledge mining and related-entity ranking for Bing, demonstrating strength in both applied research and engineering. Known for mentoring teams and establishing LLM training/serving frameworks, they combine rigorous system design with measurable product impact. An MS in Machine Learning and a BS in CS&E round out a profile grounded in both theory and production execution.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Machine Learning at San José State UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (68)
kaleidoscope10
headers10
data-journalism9
nlp9
falcon9
python9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
speech-recognition9
bloom9
natural-language-processing9
reservation-system9
transformer8
stack8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
morningsignout/news-ios
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 183 pushes in 1 year 7 months
shannonphu/hackers-roadmap
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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