# Ethan Tang > Senior ML Runtime Eng at Databricks/MosaicML Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ethantang Experienced Machine Learning Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer hardware industry. Strong information technology professional skilled in C#, Web Applications, Eclipse, Back-End Web Development, and Deep Learning. ^ The above was generated and recommended to me by Linkedin. It is debatable whether if it makes any relevant professional sense but it is proof that AI is not there yet. I am working on creating platforms that makes AI better. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML Runtime @ Databricks Mosaic Research Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Mosaic AI research @ Databricks VLMs, RL, MoEs, and LoRAs https://www.databricks.com/blog/pdfs-production-announcing-state-art-document-intelligence-databricks ### Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML Runtime @ Databricks Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer - ML Infra @ Nuro Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States Lead for open and closed loop model development and various model platform projects - Optimized the training efficiency of reinforcement learning models and expanded its training capacity - Unblocked the deployment of reinforcement models - Enabled researchers to design and experiment interactive and RL models - Accelerated data processing pipelines that uses model inferencing https://medium.com/nuro/jonathan-booher-wei-liu-zixun-zhang-joyce-huang-ethan-tang-18db008d5d08 ### Software Engineer - ML Infra @ Nuro Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States Worked on designing foundational platforms for self driving model development - Lead the migration effort of models from Tensorflow 1 to Tensorflow 2 + Keras - Optimized training efficiency of various perception models to cutdown training time and save cost - Unblocked various model development and optimization efforts such as QAT and pruning - Developed general model training libraries to accelerate model development ### Software Engineer - AI Infra @ NVIDIA Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Worked on Nvidia's autonomous vehicle infrastructure team (Maglev) to bring NVAutonet into production - Prototyped model development in PyTorch - Optimized model training performance to train faster - Implemented better loss balancing algorithms to improve model accuracy ### Deep Learning Infrastructure Intern @ NVIDIA Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara Working on scaling one of the world's biggest deep learning systems for autonomous vehicles ### Software Engineering Coop @ Uber Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on Machine Learning Platforms on Uber's Michelangelo team ### Deep Learning Software Engineering Intern @ NVIDIA Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, CA Worked on releasing DIGITS 6 with Tensorflow support, available at: https://github.com/NVIDIA/DIGITS Implemented several network models in Tensorflow such as: GoogLeNet, UNet, ResNet, Gradient model, Auto-Encoder, Siamese model. Worked on coordinating and creating release builds for DIGITS 6 for both public and NVidia's DGX customers ### Web/DB Applications Architect Coop @ NVIDIA Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, CA Migrated an internal application's frontend codebase from KendoUI + ES5 to VueJS + TypeScript, making frontend UI coding a lot more smoother. Designed and developed an integration testing server based utilizing NUnit as its core testing framework, allowing test assemblies to be uploaded and executed on the testing server while reporting back to the user status of the tests that are running. ### Software Developer Coop @ Toast, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston Fall term 2015 coop Working on micro-services project in Java with Jersey and front end with Play, Angular, HTML5, and CSS3 Developed a payment tools micro-service for payment diagnostic and resolutions ### Application Developer Coop @ Imagine Communications Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Waterloo, Ontario Winter term 2015 coop. Worked on Web app using Angular JS, HTML5, and CSS3 for front end. C# and C++ for back end with SQLite database ### Programming Intern @ Qualicom Innovations Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 QA - creating test cases, debugging application, automating testing Developer - Bug fixing, application development ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering University of Waterloo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eytang95 --- Source: https://flows.cv/ethantang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ethantang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01