# Haochen (Wallace) Sui > Software Engineer @ VMware by Broadcom Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/haochen Software engineer with experience building scalable data systems, backend platforms, and infrastructure optimization workflows, with top-tier ML/AI publications in forecasting and recommendation systems. -Member of Technical Staff - Propel -> Software Engineer @ VMware by Broadcom -M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan -M.S in Data Science at the University of Michigan -B.S in Statistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer - Infra Forecasting & Optimization Platform @ VMware Jan 2023 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States (At Our Best Award - Achieve Our Best Recognition at VMware) ➢ Built a lightweight production forecasting engine for infrastructure optimization, supporting batch fitting and on-demand inference as a cost-efficient replacement for a legacy serving stack; drove improvements across dataset preprocessing, model efficiency, and core engine modules, improving runtime efficiency by ~37% and reducing customer cost by ~28%. ➢ Developed an end-to-end recommendation service that combines forecasting signals and infrastructure telemetry to identify optimization opportunities, estimate per-entity CPU/memory/cost impact, and aggregate results across large-scale environments via MapReduce-style processing for UI and REST APIs, reducing manual triage effort by ~80%. ➢ Productionized forecasting and recommendation workflows through platform migration and integration with a distributed scheduling service, enabling configurable recurring jobs with policy rules, scoped execution, exclusion controls, and execution- status tracking at scale. ➢ Built an asynchronous export pipeline for user-customized forecasting and optimization results, using configuration-driven transformations and incremental serialization to materialize large-scale outputs into downloadable artifacts for persistence, sharing, and offline analysis. ➢ Built MCP-based tooling and workflow orchestration for an internal AI agent prototype, exposing schema-driven tools across forecasting, recommendation, and scheduling services; designed LLM routing prompts and structured outputs to support reliable multi-step execution and actionable assistance. ### Member Of Technical Staff - Hybrid Cloud Agent Platform @ VMware Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States (At Our Best Award - Achieve Our Best Recognition at VMware) Executing the subscription and hybrid journey for vCenter as vSphere+, our platform serves 4K+ customers, resulting in $374M in closed opportunity ➢ Designed and developed a comprehensive Spring Boot and Rest based restart mechanism for VMware’s agent platform, significantly enhancing the management of the hybrid cloud infrastructure. ➢ Be responsible for creating a Docker-based dual-stack architecture for the cloud service gateway, which offers enhanced network support of various cloud subscription models for thousands of customers. ➢ Developed a new log configurator with Fluent Bit for the cloud services gateway, enabling the integration and scaling of logs from on-premises virtual machine systems to the cloud. ➢ Created a time drift alert system within the cloud agent services, which monitors and detects real-time discrepancies between on-premises systems and cloud connectivity. ➢ Designed and implemented a cloud security Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system for the cloud gateway management service, ensuring customers can perform operations on the hybrid cloud platform with appropriate privileges. ➢ Developed and maintained agent coordinator services and managed the lifecycle of these microservices with periodic cloud gateway upgrades. ### Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) - EECS598: Special Topics Deep Learning for Computer Vision @ University of Michigan Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States ### Full-Stack Cloud and React based Social Network Project @ University of Michigan Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States ➢ Designed and implemented the front-end user interface of a geo-based social network using React JS ➢ Developed token-based authentication (registration, login, logout) features using React Router v4 and JWT ➢ Constructed create/browse/search nearby posts on a map with Ant Design, GeoLocation and Google Map API ➢ Implemented a scalable web service in Golang to handle posts and deployed to Google GKE/GCE for better scaling. ### Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) - EECS542: Advanced Topics in Computer Vision @ University of Michigan Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States ### Software Engineer Intern - High Precision Data Platform @ HERE Technologies Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Greater Chicago Area ➢ Designed and developed a high precision data platform in the cloud data infrastructure, generating a large amount of synthetic ground truth data for the autonomous driving system. ➢ Created a Docker-based 3D simulation architecture to generate a variety of RGB, Depth, Lidar and sensor data used for autonomous driving and map navigation, adapting Generative Modeling enhancement for quality improvement. ➢ Developed a Kubernetes-based cloud workflow to integrate 2D and 3D driving data with advanced perception algorithms. ➢ Implemented a map-reduce framework to deploy the data platform in AWS, with offers enhanced data sources support. ### Kaggle - Molecular Images to Text Translation Competition (Gold Medal) @ Kaggle Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ➢ Constructed Encoder-Decoder frameworks, adapting generative modeling techniques, to process chemical images into equation embedding fields. ➢ Performed advanced Generative AI algorithms of (EfficientNetv2, Transformer Encoder-Decoder, DETR) with cross- validation and Bayesian optimization to predict chemical structure annotation with feature embedding, achieving top accuracy. ➢ Designed a stepwise logit ensemble and beam search to choose valid prediction with rdkit, retaining a 2%+ boosting. ### Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ Computer Vision Lab Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | East Lansing, Michigan, United States ➢ Used Python (PyTorch/TensorFlow) to model objects from 2D images to 3D meshes based on Encoder-Decoder structure and Transformer-Attention mechanism, adapting Generative Modeling techniques, surpassing the level of state of the art by 1%+. ➢ Performed advanced Generative AI algorithms of (EfficientNetv2, Transformer Encoder-Decoder, DETR) with cross-validation and Bayesian optimization to predict structures with feature embedding and model ensemble, achieving top accuracy. ➢ Won a Google Kaggle Gold Medal in Molecular Images to Text Translation Competition. ### Research Assistant @ City of Detroit Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Detroit Metropolitan Area ➢ Built segmentation model with attention mechanism, visualizing different semantic parts on pavement images from Detroit City ➢ Animated the selected satellite paths on a Detroit City map using D3 and Google Map API ➢ Performed object detection algorithm on real-world road image dataset, identifying crack position and crack type in each image ### Software Engineer Intern @ Yunjia Health Cloud Computing Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China ➢ Be responsible for developing hospital diagnostic assistant system as key components of the hybrid cloud infrastructure, which manages electronic health records for patients and support hospital’s patient diagnoses for doctors. ➢ Designed the data transfer framework between real-time patient diagnosis and electronic health recording with Spring Boot and MyBatis/Hibernate ORM, providing high capacity of data flow transfer from on-premises hospital system to the cloud. ➢ Developed front-end UI with real-time data Monitoring for managing health electronic records using React JS and D3. ### Data Scientist Intern @ Swiss Re Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Beijing City, China ➢ Designed explosion risk insurance for oversized cities by conducting different risk case analysis on over 100 factories in the city ➢ Analyzed the environment impairment liability for Guangdong province by adapting data visualization and regression analysis ➢ Co-constructed fire costing risk models for the city Beijing, reducing accuracy error of fire risk’s loss and repair prediction by 10% ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Innovative Drug Discovery ➢ Built clustering algorithms to establish statistical models for drug ligands, screening out 30 drugs from 300 potential drug ligands ➢ Conducted computational biology tools for cancer pharmacology simulation modeling, finding 10 drugs with therapeutic effects ➢ Generated chemical reaction testing and energy detection modeling by deploying chemistry-related source code in Linux server ➢ Published two journal papers, which confirm that 2 drug ligands in fruits can treat and restore cellular proteins of breast cancer ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Chinese Semantic Recognition ➢ Performed convolutional neural network to identify semantics of the Chinese movie’s introduction under TensorFlow framework ➢ Refined effective ways for transforming Chinese characters into variables, enhancing Chinese semantic recognition by 8% ➢ Assessed methods for evaluating details of the neural network algorithm with cross-validation and feature visualization techniques ### Kaggle - Home Credit Default Risk Competition @ Kaggle Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Bronze Medal ## Education ### Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Master's degree in Data Science University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate School Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor's degree in Statistics (Data Science Stream) The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Summer Camp Certificate in Data Science Stanford University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Summer Program Certificate in Statistics UCLA Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hcsui --- Source: https://flows.cv/haochen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/haochen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23