Eric Bai Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

2021 to present: Instagram Privacy Experiences- Extended the company's Consent UI Framework in order to render regulation-compliance consent screen templates on Instagram, reducing the cost of compliance for the company- built Instagram's Your Activity product, allowing users to manage their data and how they present themselves all in one place2020 to 2021: Instagram Security Infrastructure- Migrated IG apps off of a legacy cookie management system to a new simpler HTTP header storage solution2018 to 2020: Knowledge Management- Built advanced search, navigation, and more for an internal Knowledge Base product built to make customer support and content moderation task completion more efficient and correct- Built Knowledge Library product in Workplace product, providing Workplace customers a KMS. Architected the storage schema and implemented front-end navigation.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Building technology for social good.https://www.uwblueprint.org/Partnered with non-profit organization Wikitongues to create a language lookup API.

Instagram Well-being

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Supervised by Peter Van Beek. Explored the application of machine learning in the field of computational photography. Improved the performance of an illuminant estimation method, a key step of image processing commonly known as white balancing. Used domain adaptation to augment datasets from different cameras, in order to create one large dataset. Training on this larger dataset led to >3% improvement for multiple cameras.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Designed and implemented a neural network to solve reinforcement learning problems, and wrote a blog post about the algorithm with a performance analysis• Modified the core API, corresponding infrastructure and website to implement a native cross-validation experiment feature• Optimized API response time with efficient queries and asynchronous jobsImplemented evaluation metrics to compare the performance of optimization techniques

Kitchener, Ontario, Ca

• Implemented a complete redesign of Kik's media viewer, which involved custom touch events, memory management, and multi-threaded tasks• Implemented the handling and sharing of group chat URLs that open in-app• Gained experience debugging memory leaks and adapting highly computational tasks to support older phones• Refactored legacy code to follow the MVP pattern and have unit test coverage• Created a music trivia chat bot in Python. Placed in Top 3 at Hack Week

Kitchener, On, Ca

• Integrated Turnitin API within D2L's learning environment using C​# in an MVC framework, stored procedures in SQL, and Javascript• Implemented and maintained over 40 new and existing features• Developed MVC controls that asynchronously update using JSON received from callbacks from automated jobs• Wrote over 100 unit and integration tests using NUnit• Received peer recognition award for finding and resolving security issues in the learning environment

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Created websites from scratch using PHP (Yii Framework) with MVC pattern and MySQL• Developed freelancer employment website for a client (caymanfreelancers.com)• Implemented back-end features such as different user types, complex database queries, cron jobs, Ajax callbacks, JSON encoding, API implementation• Developed front-end designs with responsive interface and Bootstrap• Improved efficiency of an automated email task for a client with over 1,000 subscribers