Yiming (Polo) Huang
Forward Deployed Engineer
6+
Years Exp.
100+
Pipelines
500+
Users Served
Expertise
Work Experience
Forward Deployed Engineer at Shopee
Full-time • Taipei, Taiwan
Mar 2023 - Present
Partner with internal teams to turn ambiguous operational challenges into production-ready AI systems. Designed and built an autonomous code-repair agent that takes reported bugs from intake and RCA through isolated implementation, deterministic verification, independent review, and GitLab delivery, with resumable execution and policy-based safety gates. Own solutions end to end—from discovery and architecture to rollout, observability, and continuous improvement—while delivering agentic and data platforms across LangGraph, FastAPI, Airflow, and Kubernetes.
Machine Learning Engineer at Shopee
Full-time • Taipei, Taiwan
Sep 2019 - Feb 2023
Designed a large-scale Similar Product Search platform serving 15M products using multi-modal embeddings (VGG + Sentence-BERT) with Faiss ANN indexing. Built an Image Copy Detection System (ResNet) achieving 95% accuracy. Engineered distributed crawling and task systems (Celery, RabbitMQ), reducing processing time by 90%.
Data Science Intern at Shopee
Internship • Taipei, Taiwan
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
Built automated data reporting pipelines for daily user traffic insights. Developed high-volume web crawlers collecting ~3M competitor records daily. Performed data cleaning and feature analysis, reducing model training cost by ~50%.
Highlights
2022 PyCon APAC
Sep 2022
Lecturer
Happy Coding Online Course
2020
Education
B.S. Big Data Management
Soochow University
2015 - 2019