# Anthony Duong

> Software Engineer at Assembled

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anthonyduong

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Assembled
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Flexport
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Associate, Pricing Optimization @ Flexport
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Building a service to predict milestones and improve on-time-performance. Analyzing data sources and running experiments with gradient boosting algorithms and neural networks. Building data pipelines and machine learning models in production.
- Built classification models to predict quote acceptance and estimate price elasticity. Used results as parts of revenue maximization models to generate optimal prices. Used regularization for feature selection.
- Built an engine with data scientists to automate and optimize shipment consolidation. The estimated ROI is a 3,100 hour cost-to-serve reduction per year. Wrote data pipelines, an optimization model, tests, and algorithms for a mixed-integer linear program.
- Built the workflow management and tracking system for setting prices with data scientists. Wrote the first models in production to optimize allocation management, with potential net revenue impact of $5-7 million per year.

### Senior Associate, Pricing Data Systems @ Flexport
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Founded, designed, and helped data engineers build the system for cost estimation covering all ocean and air spot contracts. It automated ingestion and loading of rate data, using a Gmail scraper and APIs. It was featured on the Flexport Engineering blog.
- Conducted research with Flexport's Chief Economist to present to executives. Built regression models to predict client profitability and ocean freight prices. Performed analyses on the trade war, which were featured in Flexport's blog and economic reports and cited on Bloomberg.

### Procurement Data Associate @ Flexport
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Wrote scripts to extract and transform unstructured rate data from non-standard contracts, reducing processing time from one day to 20 seconds. Coded the first pricing models, reducing time to implement pricing and fulfillment strategy from six hours to one hour.

### Research Associate @ Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Supported economists' research on factors influencing firm entry rate
- Wrote programs to combine data from files of varying formats, across years into new data sets for analysis
- Wrote automated tests to validate data sets.

### Foreign Language Teacher @ Suzhou Foreign Language School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Jiangsu, China
- Design 20 lessons per week at the “Leading Primary and Secondary School of Jiangsu Province”
- Manage the conduct, behavior, and academic work of 80 students
- Organize and run school-wide events such as Bilingual Festival, Art Month, and Science Month

### Research Assistant @ Experimental and Behavioral Economics Lab
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Santa Barbara, California Area
- Analyzed Professor Zachary Grossman's experiments with communication in team settings
- Coded thousands of observations from transcripts in a spreadsheet used for regression analysis
- Tested games and software used for experiments to ensure functionality for participants

### Research Assistant @ Bren School of Environmental Science & Management - University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santa Barbara, California Area
- Assisted PhD candidates with projects on design of water quantity markets and aquifers
- Analyzed and recorded data for 21 air pollution markets and 15 water pollution markets
- Cleaned datasets for 44 counties in Kansas using pivot tables and filters


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Economics/Mathematics
UC Santa Barbara

### Beijing Normal University

### High School
Rancho Bernardo High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anthonyduong1

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Last updated: 2026-04-10