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Work

Tesla

Sr. Software Engineer May. 2023 – Present

Designed a platform from scratch, enabling Data Scientists to build visual web apps without any front-end knowledge, resulting in reduced their web development timelines from weeks to just a few days.

Led the migration and restructuring of Airflow to integrate NVIDIA GPU support, boosting scalability and efficiency in machine learning model training processes.

Developed and integrated a robust CI/CD pipeline, streamlining development cycles and ensuring seamless, automated updates for machine learning models.

Inventec

Sr. Software Engineer Dec. 2019 – May. 2022

Inventec is a tier-one manufacturer of laptops and consumer electronic products with annual revenue exceeding US$18B in 2020.

Led APP team of 2 engineers to integrate react-native with the existing native app, and also using multi-bundler to speed up APP by splitting each bundle file from 4MB to 200 KB.

Implemented a IoT management system with Kafka to collect data for near real-time suggestion functionality.

Developed Chatbot service based on Node.js, Docker and Kubernetes into IoT platform to support customers control IoT devices easily and efficiently.

Created JavaScript SDK from scratch to support vendors to develop their IoT Services. (number of devices: 50,000+)

Tico

Software Engineer Feb. 2017 – Nov. 2019

Tico focuses on creating human-centered communication solutions to improve collaborations for the world.

Developed communication service from scratch based on React Native, with 10,000+ users. (Web, iOS, Android)

Built testing environment to improve front-end developing quality using Jest and React Testing Library.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science in Software EngineeringAug. 2022 – Dec. 2023
Overall GPA: 3.7 / 4.0

Coursework

Cloud Computing,
Foundation of Software Engineering,
Software Design and Architecture,
Software Refactoring
Data Science of Software Engineering

Fu Jen Catholic University

Master of Science in Computer ScienceSep. 2017 – Jun. 2018
Overall GPA: 3.97 / 4.0

PUBLICATION:
Meng-Pei Lee, Hsiang-Yu Hu, Hsing Mei, “Life Chasing: A Location-based Game Prototype for Elderly Health Promotion”, International Conference on Healthcare Service Management (ACM), Japan, 2018, pp. 265-271

Fu Jen Catholic University

Bachelor of Science in Computer ScienceSep. 2013 – Jun. 2017
GPA in final year: 4.0 / 4.0

HONOR:
Won first place in Graduation Competition for developing a dating app combined with an IoT device.

Skills

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