Senior Software Engineer & Technical LeadOct, 2021 -- Now
Technical Lead for Amazon Transcribe, a fully managed speech-to-text service supporting batch and real-time streaming transcription across 100+ languages.
Who I am
Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at AWS, building large-scale systems for batch and real-time data processing with neural network models. Currently leading platform development for Amazon Transcribe, a fully managed speech-to-text service supporting 100+ languages at scale. 10+ years of experience across AWS, IBM, Siemens, and Nokia, spanning distributed systems, machine learning, and full-stack development.
What I can do
- Large-scale Distributed Systems — Design and deliver batch and real-time data processing pipelines, inference optimization at scale, and high-availability platform architecture
- Machine Learning & Speech AI — Production ASR systems, neural network model development, speech-to-text at global scale, image clustering and dimensionality reduction
- Security & Application Protection — AI-powered threat detection, unauthenticated API abuse prevention, authorisation and identity systems
- Full-stack & API Development — End-to-end product ownership from UI to backend using Node.js, Java, Python, reactive streaming (RxJava), and React
- Cloud & Infrastructure — Operating and scaling services across millions of users using AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
Experience
Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead
Senior Software EngineerNov, 2015 -- Sep, 2021
Product development lead for X-Force Exchange and Threat Intelligent Insight for IBM Cloud Pak for Security.
Frontend Development LeadApr, 2014 - Oct, 2015
Led frontend development for a software architecture analysis tool (now Cape of Good Code at capeofgoodcode.com).
Master ThesisApr, 2014 -- Feb, 2015
Develop the new machine learning algorithms for dimensionality reduction and data clustering.Software EngineerNov, 2013 -- Jan, 2014
Work as software engineer for web application to provide the configuration interface and performance analysis on Software Defined Network (SDN).
Software EngineerAug, 2013 -- Oct, 2013
Work as software engineer to develop and implement the algorithms to build the most efficient virtual network (VNet).
Software EngineerMar, 2012 -- Jul, 2012
Work as full-stack developer to build the next generation of the web application for existing productsResearch & Recognition
Patent:
- Detecting inappropriate activity in the presence of unauthenticated api requests using artificial intelligenceJuly 2, 2020Use Neural network to identify the unauthenticated data scrapping based on the observation of user behaviors on API requestsLink to patent
Publications:
- Interactive SAR Image Representation Using Non-negative Matrix FactorizationMarch 7, 2016IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), Special issue on "GeoVision: Computer Vision for Geospatial Applications"Link to publication
- Interactive Feature Learning From SAR Image PatchesMay 1, 2015IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)Link to publication
- Immersive Visual Analytic of Earth Observation DataNov 4, 2014Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS'14)Link to publication
Awards
- 2017 - 2019: Eminence & Excellence Award by IBM (3 times)
- 2017 - 2019: Manager's Choice Award by IBM (5 times)