Xinyu Huang
Back End Engineer at Rakuten AI
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolXinyu Huang is a backend engineer with seven years of experience building large-scale, production-grade systems for AI and speech products, currently at Rakuten AI in Shanghai. He previously led distributed system architecture and real-time data pipelines at ByteDance, delivering 99.99% voice session availability for services handling billions of daily requests and scaling model resources by orders of magnitude. Trained in international affairs and English literature before pivoting to machine learning and deep learning, he blends multidisciplinary thinking with rigorous engineering practice. He’s built multimodal analytics and education-focused LLM pipelines that combine Flink, Spark, ASR, and pronunciation detection to power product insights and adaptive evaluation. Outside work he maintains a Chinese-language technical blog and a personal academic homepage, reflecting a continuous appetite for research and public-facing explanation.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's degree, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Bachelor's degree, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at Shanghai International Studies University
Github Skills (28)
data-generation10
image-editing10
speech10
coveralls9
angularjs9
leaderboard9
travis-ci8
codecov8
trend8
reproducible-research8
evaluation8
django7
decoder7
docker6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xinyu1205/recognize-anything
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Open-source and strong foundation image recognition models.
Contributions:1 review, 43 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year 11 months
recognize-anythingtag2text-iclr2024
xinyu1205/robust-loss-mlml
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 months
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