Summary
Sunny Deng is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience spanning frontend, backend, mobile, embedded systems, and machine learning for computer vision, speech recognition, and language models. Currently on the Microsoft Teams team, he has shipped end-to-end features such as transcription, live captions, and AI Interpreter, contributing across both client and server code. His background includes building scalable IoT cloud platforms and cross-platform desktop apps at HKUST and HKU, and porting and optimizing deep learning models for edge devices during academic research. Comfortable across the full stack and embedded stack alike, he blends product-focused engineering with hands-on model performance tuning and memory optimization. Based in Hong Kong, he brings a research-rooted pragmatism that helps bridge academic prototypes to production-grade systems. An uncommon strength is his breadth: moving fluidly between low-level embedded constraints and high-level AI-powered user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Microelectronics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Microelectronics at Sun Yat-Sen University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese, Japanese, Chinese