Yang-jung Chen
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang-jung Chen is a software engineer and incoming Columbia MS student with 8 years of experience building scalable backend systems and production ML-backed features. He has shipped cost- and incident-reducing infrastructure changes at regional scale—migrating Lambdas to Kubernetes, cutting service incidents with distributed Redis locks, and integrating AI chatbots to save $500K annually. On the research side he co-authored AuraFusion360 (CVPR 2025) on 3D object removal for 360° scenes, improving PSNR and LPIPS via depth-aware diffusion fine-tuning, highlighting a rare blend of production engineering and cutting‑edge computational photography. He’s delivered measurable product impact across marketplaces and fintech integrations, including a BNPL rollout that drove 20% revenue lift, and represents a cross-cultural background with diplomatic experience representing Taiwan abroad. Practical, metrics-driven, and research-savvy, he thrives at the intersection of backend reliability and applied machine learning.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (66)
pipeline10
docker10
continuous-delivery9
kustomize9
jsonnet9
helm9
grafana9
k8s9
esxi9
packaging9
devops9
vcenter9
continuous-deployment9
kubernetes9
cicd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
t106362512/King-of-the-tourism-planning
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 53 commits, 16 PRs in 10 months
t106362512/ST-2022-310551017
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:22 PRs, 59 pushes, 18 branches in 2 months
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