Tak Lai
Senior Data Engineer
Central & Western District, Hong Kong SAR
Summary
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Top SchoolTak Lai is a Senior Data Engineer with 8 years' experience building scalable data platforms across travel, media and cloud services in Hong Kong. He has deep hands-on expertise in Hadoop ecosystems, Kafka, Airflow and cloud data warehouses on GCP/AWS, and has delivered production AI-backed services leveraging LangChain, ChatGPT and vector databases. Comfortable with Linux system administration and ETL design, Tak blends applied research sensibilities (Applied Scientist / Research Software Engineer on GitHub) with practical engineering to centralize and operationalize data. Notably, he has led migrations to cloud-native data warehouses and built internal AI tooling for content teams, demonstrating a rare mix of data infrastructure and ML service delivery.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Github Skills (4)
python6
estimate5
sparse3
factor3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
takshingchan/fetchers-python
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Data source fetchers written in python
Contributions:166 pushes in 1 year 4 months
data-sourcepython
takshingchan/citm
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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