Shulin Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolShulin Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berkeley with eight years of experience building production-grade machine learning platforms, currently contributing to Snowflake’s ML infrastructure. Prior roles at Uber (Michelangelo) and Trifacta show deep expertise in platform engineering for data and ML workflows, combining backend systems thinking with practical model-serving concerns. Open-source contributions to Apache SINGA—improving SoftMax numerical stability and fixing examples/tests—underscore a focus on robust, distributed deep learning implementations. Known for bridging research-grade algorithms and production constraints, he brings a pragmatic yet detail-oriented approach to scaling ML systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (7)
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
cudnn9
cuda9
python7
java6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/singa
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
a distributed deep learning platform
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:107 commits, 10 PRs, 117 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Shulin's commits focused on improving the SoftMax algorithm in the context of a distributed deep learning platform. They modified the algorithm to prevent overflow issues, ensuring numerical stability. They also modified the `SoftmaxBackward` implementation to utilize the same algorithm. Furthermore, the user contributed to testing by passing a test for the `mlp_buffer` and fixing program bugs in the `mnist_cnn` example.
learning-platformdeep-learningmachine-learningdistributed-deep-learningdistributed
XJDKC/singa
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Mirror of Apache Singa
Contributions:94 pushes, 13 branches, 1 tag in 11 months
javaapachecplusplusbig-data
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