Zixian Chai
Software Engineer MTS at Tableau
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZixian Chai is a results-driven Software Engineer MTS based in Seattle with 11 years of experience blending engineering rigor and human-centered insight from a dual background in computer science and psychology. Currently at Tableau after building semantic search and NLU-driven concept resolution at Amazon, he specializes in turning ambiguous user needs into intuitive, data-informed software products. His Symbolic Systems MS from Stanford and research on children’s graphical communication reflect a rare ability to combine cognitive science methods with full-stack development. Comfortable shipping production systems and research-grade experiments alike, he brings cross-cultural perspective and measurable impact—from museum-deployed web apps to customer-facing AI services.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Symbolic Systems, Master of Science - MS, Symbolic Systems at Stanford UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Major, Psychology Major, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Major, Psychology Major at Austin College
Chinese, English
Github Skills (22)
word2vec9
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
fasttext9
corpus9
word-embeddings9
gensim9
topic-modeling9
glove9
nlp8
sentence-similarity8
python8
natural-language-processing8
information-retrieval8
data-mining8
lda8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Renata1995/Topic-Distance-and-Coherence
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:69 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
BuiTran/ChineseWeb
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:66 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
databasemysqlweb-serverserver
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