Xi Chen
AI Innovation Team Lead Manager
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXi Chen is an AI innovation leader based in San Jose with 15+ years of engineering experience and T8-level seniority at Baidu, currently leading a large-scale AI video production service that transitioned from research prototype to a multi-million-dollar internal product. He blends deep expertise in big data, data warehousing, and data mining with hands-on machine learning, NLP, CV, and speech synthesis work, and designs cloud-native, Kubernetes-based distributed systems. Xi has a track record of turning experimental research into production—authoring core algorithms, securing patents, and earning internal awards and industry visibility through talks and media. His earlier career spans full-stack and front-end architecture roles, platform engineering for PaddlePaddle and elastic deep learning, and pioneering projects like a self-driving boat control and data collection system. He is skilled at balancing ML research and engineering delivery to build scalable, customer-facing services. An underrated strength is his ability to move across low-level control systems to high-level AI orchestration, bridging hardware, software, and ML teams.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Engineering at China University of Mining and Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
database9
hive8
sql8
dbt8
java8
spark8
snowflake8
bigquery7
hadoop7
etl7
high-performance7
query-engine7
olap6
elt6
big-data6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chenchi-cc/chenchi-cc.github.io
Dec 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
DarrenChanChenChi/cloud_note
May 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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