Henry Tan — Co-Founder
Technopreneur | Google AI | Microsoft Research | MIT | Cambridge | PhD Working on the planet scale Search engine at Amazon powering it with GenAIs. Always looking for interesting idea đź’ˇMy interests are always be in exciting technologies, investing, coaching, and building successful business. Co-founded AI startup, getting it off from the ground to multi-million dollars valuations and secured VC fundings. Ex Google Brain (TensorFlow/TPU). A member of Google Research & Machine Intelligence. Part of the LLM GenAI history - leading an elite team shipping 0 to GA Google world-best Text Embedding API. Shipped Video Intelligence (beta) at Google - founding engineer of Google Cloud Video Intelligence service; was announced #googlenext17 during Li-Fei Fei's keynote. A founding engineer & incubator of Maguro Bing BigIndex distributed system & Microsoft Distributed DeepLearning Infrastructure (a.k.a project Adam). Recognized for my academic achievements and leadership potential, I received acceptances to world-renowned universities, including the University of Oxford and Ivy League Cornell University with scholarships offers. Admitted to MIT for my master degree, and completed my PhD in Computer Science from University of Technology, Sydney. A consistent high-performer Software Engineer with an extensive experience working with complex large-scale real-time distributed online services. Experience in multi-release cycles and shipping software and services used by millions of users worldwide (Messenger Server, Bing.com, SQL, Azure). A quick learner with can-do attitude and top-notch work ethics, flexible, highly-motivated, strong individual contributor and solid team player with excellent drive for getting things done with quality and strong desire to exceed expectation. I have extensive experience in high-performance, low-latency, large-scale distributed system development. I've built search engine core stack (indexer, query parsing, query execution pipeline, networking subsystem, RPC, index management) and extensive experience with Big Data domain, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Data Visualization. More than 10 years experience writing & running large-scale production code in C++ running on Google Cloud, Bing.com, Azure, Skype, Windows Messenger. Expertise and experience in large-scale, low-latency, distributed system, deployment & monitoring infrastructure, web-search index management & serving stack, query execution (parsing, language & grammar) dev, cloud storage, data viz, machine learning/data mining.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly experienced AI and distributed systems engineer.
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Experience: 21 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence
- Distributed Systems
Career Highlights
- Led development of world-class AI technologies.
- Co-founded a successful AI startup with multi-million dollar valuation.
- Expert in large-scale distributed systems and machine learning.
Work Experience
AI2 Incubator
Resident Expert (1 yr 1 mo)
Amazon
Principal Engineer (3 yrs 3 mos)
AI Singapore
Academic Advisor (0 mo)
Google Brain
Research Software Engineer (3 yrs 4 mos)
Canotic Inc
Cofounder/CTO (2 yrs 1 mo)
Technical Lead/Researcher (7 yrs)
Self-employed
Entrepreneur/Board Member/Technology Advisor (12 yrs 1 mo)
Microsoft Research
Principal SDE (2 yrs 5 mos)
BlueKai
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr)
Microsoft
Senior SDE (7 yrs)
Smart Car Technology
S/W Engineer Lead (1 yr 6 mos)
Education
Master's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD at University of Technology Sydney
Master's degree at University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
BCSE at La Trobe University
High School at SMUK 1 BPK PENABUR