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Do whatever it needs to grow a startup.

Develop a new product leveraging Amazon's personalization technology. Responsible for all technical and project management aspects. Helped build up a new team from scratch; moved the team to adopt agile development process with a strong focus on testing; planned out the road-map of the product and managed the team to achieve the goal on daily basis.

Responsible for all project/product management aspects. Lead a small team to create a generic data service to replace five very-old services; managed the project from design phase to release, to migrating off the old services. Coordinated with external teams for a successful migration.

Helped built the ground work for exposing Amazon's personalization technology. Designed, developed, maintained and tested back-end services to help launch Amazon Personalization Network. Got involved in developing business plan and translating that into technical specifications. Mentored junior developers and served as one of the key technical resources in.

Augmented current Amazon recommender system to improve product targeting by designing and implementing new recommender algorithms. Researched, designed and implemented a scalable approach to combine multiple heterogeneous recommenders in a principle way in less than two weeks. The approach, which was patented, allows new recommender algorithms to be added.

Master, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Bs, Computer Science