Yiming (Polo) Huang

Forward Deployed Engineer

location_on Taipei, Taiwan
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6+

Years Exp.

100+

Pipelines

500+

Users Served

Expertise

Data EngineeringBackend DevelopmentMLOpsPythonFastAPIAirflowDockerKubernetesLLM / AI AgentsLangGraphCI/CDELK Stack

Work Experience

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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.

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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%.

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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

Sep 2022

Lecturer

Happy Coding Online Course

2020

Education

B.S. Big Data Management

Soochow University

2015 - 2019