Shawn has a master’s degree in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon University. He was on the Dean's list when he received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
Shawn is a software engineer intern on the data team at Akuna Capital. He deployed Apache Airflow on AWS, created the CI/CD pipeline, and migrated production workflow to the event-driven system. Additionally, He was a machine learning research assistant at Taiwan's governmental research institution. He conducted research on enhancing users' privacy by collecting less user information while maintaining the prediction accuracy of users' interests in online advertisements. Besides, He was a software-defined network testing intern at D-Link NCTU Joint Research Center. He collaborated with the engineering team and tested the functionalities of a new switch prototype.
In addition to his professional experience, Shawn also has project experiences related to software engineering. He implemented a Uber-like driver matching system with Kafka streams, developed concurrent caching web proxies on Amazon Web Service, and performed targeted adversarial attacks against a keyword spotting system. His overall experience in cloud computing and software engineering makes him a strong candidate for roles like cloud, system, and backend engineer.