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Liam Cheng

Liam Cheng

Principal ML Engineer at Canva
Principal ML Engineer at CanvaLos Angeles, CA · America/Los_Angeles7 yrs · IC4
HiredHotInboundActively lookingPermanent resident
AI match score
77/ 100
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Last touched1mo ago
OwnerJordan Peretz
Comp expectation$279,922–$391,862
Flight risklow

Work history

6 roles, 7 total years.

  • CA
    Principal ML Engineer
    Canva
    Apr 2023Present
    3 yr
    Los Angeles, CATeam of 10SaaSenterprise

    Owned headcount, roadmap, and delivery for the team.

    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +31% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    74+ teams onboarded in 6 months
    Migrated serving from a legacy stack to a unified gateway
    −52% p95 latency
    LangChainPyTorchAWSMLOpsRAG pipelines
  • PE
    Staff Machine Learning Engineer
    Perplexity
    Oct 2021Apr 2023
    1 yr 6 mo
    Portland, ORTeam of 6AI/MLgrowth

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    23+ teams onboarded in 6 months
    Migrated serving from a legacy stack to a unified gateway
    −68% p95 latency
    PyTorchAWSSQLVector databasesHugging Face Transformers
  • PL
    Senior Machine Learning Engineer
    PlanetScale
    Jun 2020Oct 2021
    1 yr 4 mo
    Austin, TXTeam of 6Developer Toolsgrowth

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +26% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    19+ teams onboarded in 6 months
    SQLLangChainMLOpsHugging Face Transformers
  • MI
    Applied ML Engineer
    Mistral
    Aug 2017Jun 2020
    2 yr 10 mo
    San Francisco, CATeam of 8AI/MLstartup

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Migrated serving from a legacy stack to a unified gateway
    −56% p95 latency
    AWSLangChainPyTorchMLOpsSQL
  • HF
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Hugging Face
    Feb 2014Aug 2017
    3 yr 6 mo
    Seattle, WATeam of 11AI/MLgrowth

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +37% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Migrated serving from a legacy stack to a unified gateway
    −74% p95 latency
    PyTorchPythonVector databasesRAG pipelinesSQLHugging Face TransformersLangChain
  • SU
    Applied ML Engineer
    Supabase
    Mar 2012Feb 2014
    1 yr 11 mo
    Berlin, DETeam of 10Developer Toolsgrowth

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +24% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Hugging Face TransformersRAG pipelinesVector databasesAWS