# Curtis X

> Senior Software Engineer at Amplitude

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/curtisx

• Interested in Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Natural Language/Image Processing, and AI-related jobs, as working as Full Stack Developer
• Bilingual, Fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Amplitude
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Amplitude
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | United States
* Led and launched project on Modeling Simplification for Accounting Automation with a Senior
Engineer, saving 4000 hours of manual effort across ~200 projects for Business Accounting teams.
• Stood up BFF infrastructure through Cloud Development Kit that connect backend server to front
end applications, fully setting up the VPCs, DNS, API Gateways, Lambdas, pipelines, metrics, alarms. Technologies used: AWS System, Java, React, Redux, Typescript, CDK

### Software Engineer Intern @ Particle Media, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Performed K-Means Clustering on user vectors and computed closest features to characterize user groups
• Generated user behavior graph and performed Random Walk algorithm to select recommendations
• Evaluated users to detect significant interests based on articles they did and did not click with IG and PMI 
• Performed variations of K-Means Clustering (Spherical/Bisection) on keywords to detect interest points
Technologies used: Python

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Beijing City, China
•	Individually devised automation of environmental sound effects for Xiaoice’s (Microsoft’s AI system) storytelling (now officially implemented) based on keywords, sentence structure, rules, and SVM
•	Conducted research on cross-modal information retrieval (image-to-sound, text-to-sound)
Technologies used: Python, MySQL

### Software Developer @ Prof Lu's Internet Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Online
• Part of a team that is currently working on a News Mini Program (launched by Tencent)
• Individually coded the program from scratch
• Can display the most updated news from different categories and perform some basic functions
• Cooperated with BotBrain
BotBrain Links:
https://botbrain.ai/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/25038132/

### Content Developer Intern @ 华院数据技术（上海）有限公司
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai City, China
• Developed class material on algorithms, in form of PPTs and source code, for online Python course
• Focused on algorithms: finding prime numbers, sorting, k-means clustering
• And machine learning (in particular, TensorFlow): recognizing MNIST

http://www.huaat.com/
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/huaat

### Software Engineer Intern @ Fra+
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shanghai City, China
• Set up a local host server to take and process requests
• Wrote code to automate the process of updating cookies of accounts (which were used for web scraping)
• Stored the scraped data in an SQL server
• Wrote a shell script to automate the process of transferring data from the database to the Hadoop server

### Website Editor Intern @ Data Plus (数加)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Shanghai City, China
• Worked on an educational math website (zhishixia.com)
• Tested functions for bugs and accuracy of the algorithm
• Created and distributed surveys for marketing purposes
• Wrote code to create an interface on the website

### Researcher Intern @ Liuhe Capital
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Shanghai City, China
Researched and analyzed startups; Participated in conferences in which startups (related to technology/apps) came to introduce their companies

https://www.linkedin.com/company/1695108/ 
http://www.liuhecapital.com


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computational Mathematics
UCLA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### High School Diploma in GPA 3.90/4.00
Shanghai American School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/curtis-x-3503b6109

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Last updated: 2026-03-22