Tom Chan
Member Of Technical Staff at SalesforceIQ
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Chan is a Member of Technical Staff based in Palo Alto with 11 years of software engineering experience spanning startups and enterprise products. He has worked on machine learning infrastructure and developer-facing tooling, including substantive contributions to the well-known Apache PredictionIO project where he improved documentation, examples, and build integrations to make ML servers more accessible to engineers. At SalesforceIQ since 2016 he applies full-stack expertise gained earlier at PredictionIO and Palantir to ship production-quality systems. His background combines a BEng in Computer Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, reflecting strong academic foundations in addition to practical product work. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who elevates developer experience through clear docs and example code as much as by code changes. An interesting edge: he often focuses on the less glamorous but high-impact tasks—improving clarity and usability in open-source ML tooling that accelerates adoption.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
predictionio10
documentation10
scala10
java9
javas9
big-data9
machine-learning8
github7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/predictionio
Aug 2014 - Jun 2018
PredictionIO, a machine learning server for developers and ML engineers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 18 pushes, 19 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tom's contributions primarily involve updating and modifying existing documentation and example code within the PredictionIO repository. They have made changes to build files, example code, and documentation files related to various templates, including recommendations, similarity, and Java-based examples. The user also made changes to the core files. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the usability and clarity of the PredictionIO platform for developers.
pythondata-sciencemachine-learningmlopsbig-data
tom-chan/tom-chan.github.io
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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