# Cheng-Lin L. > Staff Machine Learning Engineer with Professional Leadership Experience. Location: Los Altos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chenglinl Cheng-Lin Li is an engineer, a leader, and a manager in software engineering industry for more than 20 years experience. He is interested in Artificial Intelligence especially Machine Learning at Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and time series data in recently years. He received his master degree of Data Informatics at University of Southern California in May, 2018 and focused on machine learning pipeline build up since Oct. 2018. Prior the recently experience, he is an expert in developing e-Commerce platforms, Mutual Funds administration applications, and enterprise intranet solutions. Team leadership, project manager, and business management officer in the ITAP Department of J.P. Morgan Asset Management and technology industries including experience in project management, systems development life cycle, professional and positive communication skills, self-managed, accountable and good analytical capability. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ oPRO.ai Jan 2023 – Present | Houston, Texas, United States Led machine learning team to develop prediction and optimization solutions based on time series data. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Petuum, Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning @ Petuum, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, CA • Defined project scopes, architecture, and functional specification of machine learning solutions. • Architected machine learning pipeline and led 4 machine learning engineers to deliver a form recognition solution by integrating ResNet, OCR engines(Tesseract/Google Vision), and NLP model for barcode detection, information extraction on the AWS EC2 platform as a Restful service with 89% accuracy. • Led data engineering team to define data standards, and build the data ingestion, conversion, validation, and preprocessing pipeline for real-time IoT streaming data in AWS S3 solutions by Python. • Enhanced industrial solution for advanced process control pipeline with data preprocessing (outlier removal, smoothing...etc.), deep learning model (sequence to sequence) as an estimator, and the genetic algorithm as a multi-objective optimizer to generate operation prescriptions based on constraints, objectives for the asset. ### Artificial Intelligence Fellow @ Insight Data Science Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Enabled researches on Capsule Nets and SegCaps image segmentation tasks in Tensorflow. • Developed a crawler program and data pipeline to collect data from the COCO dataset. Coded a package for 3D computed tomography scans and 2D color images on binary semantic segmentation in Python, Keras. • Built a video segmentation program with a pre-trained SegCaps model in Python. ### Research Assistant - Integrated Media Systems Center @ University of Southern California Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Los Angeles, CA, USA • Built Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to predict the LA freeway speed with Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) 3.1 miles per hour from over one million time-series data points by regression LSTM in Keras. ### Vice President @ J.P. Morgan Asset Management Jan 2008 – Jan 2016 | Taipei City, Taiwan - July 2014 ~ July 2016, Fund Administration Development Manager & Project Management Office/Business Management Office Manager, Vice President (VP), Application Development Department. • System migration: Saved operational costs approximate $100K per year by collaborating with business departments, analysts and programmers in Taiwan and Hong Kong to migrate the fund valuation system from AS400 to Java EE. • Project management: Managed millions budget status, reported risks/issues and suggested corrective actions by conduct review sessions for 3 IT teams. • Leadership: Directed a team of 7 on fund valuation and equity trading systems to support risk and accounting reports. - 2008 ~ 2014, e-Commerce team manager, Vice President (VP), Application Development Department. • Revamped website: Revamped B2B portal websites https://www.jpmorgantoday.com.tw/ to social connection enable platform with the video channel. • Coded portfolio and profit/loss alerts: Reported to 260K customers on #1 ranked asset management websites. •Scrum master: Led design, coding, and testing on Agile methodology and maintained 24/7 operations with 12 direct reports. • Developed Trading Systems: Built B2C/B2B websites and clients, sales, click reports to support decisions. ### Assistant Vice President (Associate) @ J.P. Morgan Asset Management Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 | Taipei City, Taiwan e-Commerce development team lead, Application Development Department • Managed strategic projects and executed $600K eCommerce websites migration plan from C/C++ to Java EE platform by leading cross-segment departments in 4 countries on time, on budget. • Advanced APIs/dashboards: Built customer profile, tracking, and sale reports to support decision makings. • Defined quality assurance standards: Reduced 15% error rate by originating and code reviewing procedures. ### Manager (Associate) @ J.P. Morgan Asset Management Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Taipei City, Taiwan e-Commerce development team lead, Application Development Department • Leadership: Led development team with 6 direct reports to support e-Commerce B2C/B2B content and onshore/offshore/stock e-Trading websites with business users in Taiwan and Hong Kong. • Built Dashboard: Designed, and integrated user behavior with sales data into the digital dashboard to support the marketing department and business decisions. • Relocated servers to the new data center: Led data center relocation project for whole e-Commerce platform from Taiwan to Hong Kong during one weekend without major incidents. ### Deputy Manager (Associate) @ J.P. Morgan Asset Management Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 | Taipei City, Taiwan e-Commerce development team as a software developer, system designer, and system analyst, Application Development Department • Created eTrading websites: Analysis, designed, and developed e-Commerce onshore/offshore/stock e-Trading websites in C/C++ with business users, internal development teams and vendors in Taiwan and Hong Kong. • Integrated digital certificates and signatures: Build up (registration authority) RA workstation to issue a digital certification to external customers and integrated the certificate with the stock trading system to perform digital signature on each transaction. ### Assistant Manager @ J.P. Morgan Asset Management Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | Taipei City, Taiwan e-Commerce development team as a software developer and system designer, Application Development Department • Created e-Commerce websites: Developed e-Commerce B2C/B2B content, and onshore/offshore/stock e-Trading websites in C/C++ with business users, internal development team and vendor in Taiwan and Hong Kong. • System design: Defined protocols with a vendor for first Interactive Voice Response solution on the mutual fund trading system. ### Project Engineer @ Acer Inc. Jan 1996 – Jan 2000 | New Taipei City, Taiwan - February 1998~February 2000, Project Engineer, Taipei AP Center • Email system migration project: Collaborated with IBM to migrate global email system in the US and Mexico to strengthen communications. • Built intranet portal: Standardized website with email, workflow engine, and software deploy managements. - October 1996~February 1998, Engineer, Taipei AP Center • Developed e-forms and analytic reports: Increased 50% companywide efficiency by replacing paperwork. ## Education ### Master's degree in Data Informatics University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Information Management National Taiwan University ### Associate's degree in Chemical Engineering Ming Chi University of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chenglin-li - Portfolio: https://cheng-lin-li.github.io/ - GitHub: https://github.com/Cheng-Lin-Li/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/chenglinl JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chenglinl/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12