Tony (Yaowen) Chang

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 8 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

7x hackathon judge and 10x hackathon winner
Optimized ship label printing saving $50 million annually
Co-founder of InsForge, building innovative backend solutions

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with experience in Cloud and Machine Learning technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

BackendCloud NetworkingJavascriptMachine LearningNatural Language Processing

Other Skills

AWSGCPAzureKubernetesJavaRuby on RailsSystems ProgrammingPython (Programming Language)SQLGraphQLPHPReact.jsPyTorchNext.jsreflex

About

https://insforge.dev/ Connection Requests ---------------------- If I don't know you, please kindly add a note to your connection request sharing why you'd like to connect with me. About ---------------------- Simply trying to help others around me. Others call me a software engineer, but I prefer calling myself an optimistic philosopher. My journey in software engineering has not just been about coding and technology; it's been a path of learning, self-discovery, and understanding how these skills can contribute to the greater good. Technology is a tool, but philosophy is the guide that shapes its use for positive impact. I believe in the power of positive thinking and continuous personal growth, seeking not just to develop software solutions, but to inspire those I encounter along my professional and personal journey. 7x hackathon judge | 10x hackathon winner Feel free to reach out to me: tonychang430@gmail.com

Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 4 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Insforge

Co-Founder & CTO

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Building the Backend for Agentic Engineering
https://insforge.dev/

Backend

Databricks

Software Engineer

Jul 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States · On-site

Networking Connectivity and Monitoring Team
we protect company wide networks
Learning something new everyday
AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudnetworking, Kubernetes

AWSGCPAzureCloudnetworkingKubernetesCloud Networking

Playtogether

Software Engineer Intern

Nov 2023 – May 2024 · 6 mos · Champaign, Illinois, United States

A startup that enhances multiplayer gaming by automating online server setup.
Great team culture and excellent engineers. Really vibed with the CEO. A lot of freedom to explore and design how to make the product better.

University of illinois urbana-champaign

6 roles

Research Assistant

Aug 2023 – Jun 2024 · 10 mos

Research assistant at Yu-Lab. Advisor: Xinzhu Yu. Great and caring professor, fantastic team. Gained insightful knowledge about the blend of neuroscience and CS.

CS222(Software Design Lab) Course Mentor

Aug 2023 – May 2024 · 9 mos

Mentoring teams! More like making friends and learning together.

CS277(Algorithms and Data Structures for Data Science) Course Assistant

Jan 2023 – May 2023 · 4 mos

This is a new course! Developed Course Infra and the labs! Happy to contribute something to UIUC.

CS361(Probability & Statistics for Computer Science) Lead Course Assistant

Aug 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

Working closely with Professor Hongye Liu and the Graduate Teaching assistants to make the class smoother and better for every student :)

CS307(Model & Learning in Data Science) Course Assistant

Aug 2022 – Dec 2022 · 4 mos

A new course to support DS+X. Fortunate to be the first CA of this class.

ECE471(Data Science Analytics using Probabilistic Graph Models) Course Assistant

Aug 2022 – Dec 2022 · 4 mos

Intense class, learned a lot from the students of this class.

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies - Pack Team
Optimizing Ship Label Printing Latency(Estimated saving 50 million dollars Annually)
Fantastic and intelligent team. Everyone works on highly impactful work and dedicates a lot of time to them, and I learn A LOT from them. Got the comment that I’m the best intern they've seen in 10 years. Fortunate to be on this team :)

JavaScriptAWSJavaRuby on RailsSystems Programming

Illinois risk lab

Data Science Research

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022 · 3 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

NLP, Insurtech
Question Answering Model
Intense team, first time encountering language model and it's usefulness. This is even before chatGPT!

Python (Programming Language)PyTorchNatural Language Processing

University of illinois urbana-champaign

CS125 Course Assistant

Jan 2021 – May 2021 · 4 mos · Illinois, United States

Assisted ~1000 students
Developed interactive video content
Held Office Hours
I love helping people out!

Tedxsmicschool

Lead Organizer

Jun 2018 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs · Shanghai, China

Led the team to contact sponsors and speakers, design posters and t-shirts, and manage budgets for the ultimate organization of a conference with 100 attendees, using a budget of 10,000RMB.
Realized that leading a team is hard.