Shao-wen Lai is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in IoT, backend systems, and computer vision, now working at Microsoft after a multi-year tenure building autonomous checkout technology at Zippin. At Zippin he progressed from developing real-time object recognition, camera calibration, and multi-sensor data processing to designing a core decision system based on task dependency graphs. His strong academic foundation in mathematics (MS, Rutgers; BS, National Taiwan University) informs numerically robust solutions for sensor fusion and realtime inference. Based in San Francisco, he blends cloud-native backend engineering with embedded/pub-sub IoT experience to ship production systems at scale. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex sensor and model outputs into reliable operational workflows, with a knack for formalizing implicit system dependencies.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics at National Taiwan University
Master’s Degree Mathematics, Master’s Degree Mathematics at Rutgers University
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