Summary
Tim Chung is a software engineer with eight years of experience building data and ML infrastructure, currently working on pretraining data at Cohere after multiple roles on their foundations and data pipelines teams. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, he has applied time-series analysis and predictive modeling in government and finance settings and helped shape data infrastructure at companies like ecobee and BDO. Tim combines practical engineering—shipping large-scale pretraining pipelines—with hands-on data science, having moved between ML engineering, data engineering, and production software roles. Based in Oakville, Ontario, he’s comfortable translating research-grade ML needs into reliable data systems and has a track record of working across the full lifecycle of LLM pretraining.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate
White Oaks Secondary School
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Korean