Albert Lai

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Cofounder of an intelligent meeting assistant.
  • Led mobile development teams at LinkedIn.
  • Developed a widely successful Android application.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Development and Software Engineering expert with a strong focus on SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringMachine LearningMobile DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

PythonAndroidiOSJavaObjective-CRailsActionScript3FlexAndroid DevelopmentRodeoMobile ApplicationsiPhoneRuby on RailsC++Git

About

I am interested in: machine learning, design

Experience

15 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Avoma, inc.

Cofounder

Aug 2017Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

  • Building an intelligent assistant for meetings - get insights and notes from your customer conversations powered by state of the art speech & language processing.
PythonAndroidSoftware EngineeringMachine Learning

Linkedin

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2016Aug 2016 · 5 mos

  • Lead the Content Mobile team for the LinkedIn Flagship apps (both iOS and Android) shipping products for sharing, LinkedIn posts, and video.
iOSAndroidJavaMobile Development

Engineering Manager

Oct 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Lead the Mobile (Android + iOS) and API teams for Pulse at LinkedIn
AndroidiOSMobile Development

Staff Software Engineer

Apr 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Continuing Pulse at LinkedIn

Pulse

Android Lead

Jun 2010Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco

  • Founding engineer - first engineering hire and created the Pulse application for Android. Brought the app from concept to over 10 million downloads (as of early 2013). Pulse has been selected as an Editor's Choice app on Android, featured in numerous publications like the NYTimes, and won the Apple Design Award in 2011. Looks beautiful on phones, tablets and everything in between.
  • Pulse was acquired by LinkedIn in April 2013.
  • Designed the underlying foundation for the app, custom UI elements (displaying tiles scrolling horizontally, interaction to display sidebar, drag n drop lists, etc), background services for fetching data and communicating with our backend efficiently, utilities for managing a multitude of images intelligently, home screen widgets, and rich notifications. [Android]
  • Architected and built the first version of the Pulse Catalog on Google App Engine to provide an easy way for users to add great content. Also built a simple dashboard for our BizDev team to manage our catalog. [Python]
  • Implemented the first version of the Pulse Catalog UI in the iOS app for both iPhone and iPad. [Objective-C]
  • Started "Formal Fridays" at the office [Clothes]
AndroidPythonObjective-CMobile DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Zynga

Intern

May 2008Aug 2008 · 3 mos · San Francisco

  • Created a dashboard in Rails to monitor the health of popular Facebook apps and calculate their K-factor from log files. [Rails]
  • Designed and implemented a multiplayer Big-2 card game in AS3/Flex. Also made all the visuals for the game. [ActionScript3, Flex]
RailsActionScript3FlexWeb Development

Goldman sachs

Technology Intern

Jun 2007Aug 2007 · 2 mos · New York City

  • Built features for Goldman's in-house basket trading order management software used on the trading floor. Robustness and speed were critical [Java]
JavaSoftware Development

Education

Stanford University

MS — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2010

University of California, Berkeley

BS

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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