Yao Leow
Senior Software Engineer (Machine Learning) at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYao Leow is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with nine years of experience building recommendation platforms and scalable systems across Meta and Shopee. Based in London, he currently contributes to Instagram's recommendation platform and previously led full-stack engineering for Meta Store features like logging, localisation, and routing. His background blends rigorous academic training from Nanyang Technological University and Imperial College London with applied ML research—he published work showcased at an ICLR 2019 workshop (graphtsne). Comfortable bridging research and production, he has repeatedly taken models from prototype to large-scale deployment in real-world recommendation settings. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep ML intuition with production-grade software craftsmanship. Outside work he maintains code and research on GitHub, reflecting ongoing curiosity at the intersection of graph methods and visualization.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Year 3 M. Eng Computing (Full-time Occasional), Year 3 M. Eng Computing (Full-time Occasional) at Imperial College LondonM.Sc. (Technology Management), B.EngSc (Computer Science), M.Sc. (Technology Management), B.EngSc (Computer Science) at Nanyang Technological UniversityRaffles Institution
French, Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
optuna5
graph5
hyperparameters4
graph-convolutional-networks4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
pagerank3
optimization3
chainer3
predict3
tensorflow3
hyperparameter-tuning2
hyperparameter-optimization1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leowyy/leowyy.github.io
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
A content-first, sliding sidebar theme for Jekyll.
Contributions:290 pushes in 1 year 1 month
sidebar-themesidebarjekylljekyll-themesliding
leowyy/fyp-graph-clustering
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:91 commits, 101 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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