Hien Luu

Software Engineer

San Jose, California, United States31 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in ML/AI leadership.
  • Expert in building scalable AI/ML infrastructure.
  • Published author on MLOps and Apache Spark.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI/ML infrastructure and scalable solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipMlopsGenerative AiMl Infrastructure

Other Skills

RayMachine LearningRedisApache SparkHadoopJavaSpringRESTScalabilityDistributed SystemsApache PigHibernateDesign PatternsCloud ComputingMapReduce

About

* Passionate ML/AI leader and love building scalable AI/ML & GenAI infrastructure to power real-world applications * 10+ years of technical leadership experience in leading, managing and building ML infra. & big data infra. * Have extensive working experience in building large-scale ML infrastructure to support high throughput, low latency serving * Speaker at various conferences such as Data+AI summit, MLOps world, QCon, GHC, etc * UCSC Extension school instructor. Taught various courses like GenAI Fundamentals, Apache Spark, Java, etc * Author of MLOps with Ray and Beginning Apache Spark books

Experience

31 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
19 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Zoox

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Leading the ML Platform team to drive innovation in autonomous driving and deliver exceptional rider experiences.
  • Supporting numerous ML teams at Zoox, including Perception, Prediction, Planning, Simulation, Collision Avoidance, and more.
Engineering LeadershipMLOpsRay

Doordash

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2020Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led the ML platform team to build scalable infrastructure for GenAI & ML to accelerate AI development.
  • Check out out some impressive projects from my team members:
  • https://doordash.engineering/2023/11/28/transforming-mlops-at-doordash-with-machine-learning-workbench/
  • https://doordash.engineering/2022/04/12/3-principles-for-building-an-ml-platform/
  • https://doordash.engineering/2020/07/20/enabling-efficient-machine-learning-model-serving/
  • https://doordash.engineering/2020/11/19/building-a-gigascale-ml-feature-store-with-redis/
  • https://doordash.engineering/2021/03/04/building-a-declarative-real-time-feature-engineering-framework/
  • https://doordash.engineering/2021/05/20/monitor-machine-learning-model-drift/
  • https://doordash.engineering/2021/01/26/computational-graph-machine-learning-ensemble-model-support/
RayGenerative AIMLOps

Apress

Book Author

Sep 2017May 2024 · 6 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • MLOps with Ray - 2024
  • Beginning Apache Spark 3 - 2021
  • Beginning Apache Spark 2 - 2018

Linkedin

Engineering Manager - AI Infrastructure

Feb 2017Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · United States

  • Lead a team to develop a solution in the area of feature infrastructure to help speeding up AI powered applications at model inferencing time.
  • Lead a team to develop and manage a content processing platform to enable internal data scientists and engineers to easily develop end-to-end solutions to process content at real-time, store and serve the derived insights at on-line and off-line.

Uber

Engineering Manager

Apr 2016Feb 2017 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led an incredibly talented team to provide real-time Uber marketplace business insights to other product teams to add value or improve rider and driver experience.
  • Drove initiatives to improve real-time analytics system to power Uber marketplace product teams. This system leverages technologies like Apache Spark, Apache Samza and Elastic Search.
  • Provided leadership and guidance to aid the development of business real-time event subscription system, which combines the power of real-time and historical data to provide insightful business insights and value to improve rider and driver experience.
  • A recent talk about what my team does - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/real-time-streaming-uber

Linkedin

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Sep 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mountain View

  • Leading a team to build Big Data applications and infrastructure.
  • Segmentation and targeting platform
  • Workflow and scheduling system

Staff Software Engineer - Data Analytics Infrastructure

Nov 2010Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mountain View

  • Play a technical lead role on Segmentation & Targeting platform project
  • Hack master
  • Wrote a blog about "User Engagement Powered By Apache Pig and Hadoop" - http://engineering.linkedin.com/hadoop/user-engagement-powered-apache-pig-and-hadoop

Netflix, inc

Sr. Software Engineer

Jan 2009Oct 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos

Yahoo!

2 roles

Technical Lead

Aug 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

Sr. Software Engineer

Dec 2005Aug 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos

Ucsc extension in silicon valley

Program Chair: AI Business Practices

Jan 2007Present · 19 yrs 5 mos · Santa Clara, CA

  • AI Business Practices Specialization
  • Explore the characteristics of generative AI and learn real-world AI applications to improve workplace productivity
  • Explore AI use cases and learn to streamline your daily tasks, such as document and presentation creation, report generation, and project management
  • Previous program - Program Chair of Data Analytics Program & Instructor
  • Bootstrap the Data Science program
  • Recruit instructors and advisory board members
  • Instructor of Introduction to Apache Spark with Scala courseC

Agile software

Sr. Software Engineer

Jan 2001Jan 2005 · 4 yrs

Icarian

Sr. Software Engineer

Jan 1999Jan 2001 · 2 yrs

Sun microsystems

Software System II

Jan 1994Jan 1999 · 5 yrs

Education

University of Washington

BSEE — Electrical Engineering

Sep 1984Jun 1990

San José State University

M.S. — Software Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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