# Austin Sun > Member of Technical Staff @ Arena | Berkeley M.E.T. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/austinsun Love working with people to solve challenging and impactful problems. Interested in the intersection of AI/ML with business, philosophy, and ethics. Contact me at austin.jsun@gmail.com! ## Work Experience ### Member of Technical Staff @ Arena Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Software Engineer @ Ramp Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Software Engineer @ Scale AI Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States ### VP Associate Development @ Net Impact Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States ### Senior Associate Consultant @ Net Impact Berkeley Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States • Fall 2021: Social impact consulting project with Volta Charging • Spring 2021: Social impact consulting project with Modibodi • Fall 2020: Social impact consulting project with Eventbrite • Spring 2020: Researched, developed and prioritized sustainable solutions for a high end winery in Napa Valley to significantly reduce carbon emissions across their operations and supply chain ### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Facebook App Monetization Quality Team ### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Cloud + AI - Azure Commerce and Ecosystems, Retail Federation Team ### Software Engineer Intern @ Nuro Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States ML Infra Team ### CS 188 Reader @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Course staff (Reader) for CS 188 (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence) ### Software Engineer Intern @ Roblox Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Mateo, California, United States • SWE Intern (ML focus) on the Search and Discovery Platform Team • Developed unsupervised ML model to cluster games based on title & description metadata with NLP & IR techniques. Applications to game genre tagging & game search page population. • Created & deployed full-stack Flask web app that generates game history for developer debugging. Technologies used: Bootstrap, AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker ### Machine Learning Engineer @ Machine Learning at Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, CA Spring 2020: Climate.ai software development project. Fall 2019: Intuit software development project. Scroll down to see more! ### Relations Officer @ Machine Learning at Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California Sourcing projects, partnerships, tech talks, and other public events put on by ML@B from companies ### Marketing Officer @ Machine Learning at Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California Promoting ML@B through social media, newsletters, photos and other media ### CS 61B Junior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States • Taught CS 61B (Data Structures, Java) course material in a small group tutoring format. • Led a weekly small-group mentoring section and developed teaching and mentoring skills through weekly meetings with senior mentors. ### ML@B Project Member @ ClimateAI Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Using image processing and machine learning techniques on satellite imagery for agricultural applications, such as crop phenology ### ML@B Project Member @ Intuit Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Benchmarked Intuit's internal NLP tools on a variety of state-of-the-art NLP tasks ### Research Assistant (Deep Learning for Security Applications) @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California • Writing email preprocessing code, training models, and evaluating results for a spam email identification and classification project under Prof. Dawn Song’s lab • Achieved 97% accuracy on test classification dataset using a header-based classification method ### CS61A Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA • Academic intern for CS61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, the largest CS course at Berkeley with 1.2k+ students. • Facilitated student learning by answering questions, clarifying and explaining concepts, and providing debugging help with lab, homework, and projects during office hours. • Concepts taught include functions, recursion, trees, object oriented programming. • Programming languages taught include Python, Scheme, and SQL. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Berkeley SkyDeck Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California SWE intern for Wymbo, a Berkeley Skydeck startup creating a product geared towards helping college students discover events on campus ### Software Developer @ Lynx Verification Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California Software developer for Lynx Verification, a Berkeley Skydeck startup in document verification ### HBSA MBA & Alumni Relations Associate @ University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA MBA & Alumni Relations is a committee within the Haas Business School Association that aims to foster community and increase connection between the undergraduate population of UC Berkeley and Haas MBA and Alumni. Some examples of initiatives that we have undertaken to fulfill this goal include the Bear 2 Bear Mentorship program, partnerships with the SF Haas Alumni association, and outreach to MBAs on campus. ### Student Researcher @ The Summer Science Program Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Boulder, Colorado • Developed Python software to perform Gaussian orbital determination of Near-Earth asteroid 20460 Robwhiteley and submitted results to the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics • Determined orbital elements of the asteroid: semi major axis, inclination, eccentricity, longitude of ascending node, argument of perihelion, and true anomaly using the Gaussian method • Performed astrometry and photometry on images taken at Sommers-Bausch Observatory Technologies Used: Python, MaximDL, SAOImage DS9 ### Teaching Assistant @ Ardent Academy for Gifted Youth Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Irvine, CA • Assisted teaching and grading MathCounts and AMC8 classes • Hosted office hours, edited course curriculum and wrote answer keys ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Business Administration University of California, Berkeley ### Bachelor of Science - BS UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC Berkeley College of Engineering ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Business Administration University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business ### International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme International Baccalaureate ### High School Diploma Troy High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austinjsun --- Source: https://flows.cv/austinsun JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/austinsun/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29