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PoHung Chen - Software Engineer in New York, NY

PoHung Chen

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps and real-time model serving

AmazonNYUNew York, NY2 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks On-Site

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Software engineer with Amazon experience who has built LLM-powered and hybrid ML systems for ad auction/relevance at massive scale. Most notably, they described redesigning brand-query classification with a GPT-4-assisted offline cache plus fallback architecture that improved accuracy from 72% to 99%, reduced latency and costs, and was credited with an estimated $130M revenue lift.

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Key Strengths

  • Built production LLM/hybrid systems for high-scale ad auction workflows
  • Strong trade-off judgment across accuracy, latency, and cost
  • Designed two-tier architecture with Redis cache and fallback models
  • Improved classification accuracy from 72% to 99%
  • Reduced latency by about 20-22%
  • Cut operating costs by 60%
  • Drove estimated $130M incremental revenue via higher CTR
  • Maintained 100% service availability with fallback design
  • Experience with evaluation loops using offline replay and online A/B testing
  • Data reliability engineering with schema validation, idempotent pipelines, and DLQs

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Experience

Software EngineerAmazon · Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
Software Development Engineer InternAmazon · Jun 2022 – Aug 2022internship
Software Engineer InternshipQualcomm Institute, UC San Diego · Jul 2019 – Sep 2019internship
Software Engineer InternIndustrial Technology Research Institute · Jun 2018 – Aug 2018internship

Education

NYUmaster, Computer Engineering (2023)
National Sun Yat-sen Universitybachelor, Computer Science and Engineering; Physics (double major) (2020)

Languages

English

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PoHung ChenJunior AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps and real-time model serving