Sylar Lou
Lead, Personalization ML AI (Local & Travel Search)
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSylar Lou is a seasoned engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling search, recommendation, and distributed systems, currently leading Personalization ML/AI for Local & Travel Search at Google. He combines hands-on expertise in high-performance C++ servers and distributed architectures with product-facing ML personalization, having risen from engineering and management roles at Google after prior systems work at Epic and academic research at Tsinghua and Emory. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced logging and configuration subsystems for a widely used C++ distributed server framework, reflecting deep systems-level craftsmanship. Based in Los Altos, he brings a rare mix of systems programming, ML personalization, and cross-disciplinary academic training in engineering and economics to deliver reliable, scalable user-facing search experiences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Emory UniversityBachelor of Engineering Micro-Electro-Mechanical System, Bachelor of Engineering Micro-Electro-Mechanical System at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
113reputation
36reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (17)
c-language10
configuration-management10
logger10
sys10
logging10
cprogramming-language10
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
high-performance8
distributions8
network7
html6
coroutines6
sorting6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sylar-yin/sylar
May 2019 - Jun 2022
C++高性能分布式服务器框架,webserver,websocket server,自定义tcp_server（包含日志模块，配置模块，线程模块，协程模块，协程调度模块，io协程调度模块，hook模块，socket模块，bytearray序列化，http模块，TcpServer模块，Websocket模块，Https模块等, Smtp邮件模块, MySQL, SQLite3, ORM,Redis,Zookeeper)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 commits, 1 PR, 135 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sylar primarily focused on integrating and improving the logging and configuration systems of the C++ high-performance distributed server framework. They integrated log and configuration systems, as shown in commit messages. Moreover, the commits show the incorporation of features, such as file appenders, and the enhancement of the logger.
rpczookeeperhttp-serverormsqlite3
sylar-yin/sblog
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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