# John Clow

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johnclow

Programming: Python, C/C++, SQL, Dataswarm (like Airflow), PyTorch
Experience with: Rust, OCaml, HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, Android dev (Java), Tensorflow
Natural Languages: Native English speaker, conversational in Chinese 
FINRA licensed Investment Banking Principal (CRD 5939875), passed the Series 79 and Series 24

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ SafetyKit
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Canopy Servicing
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
•	Led a team of 4 engineers, transitioning the company’s core business logic from Postgres Stored Procedures to modern, typed Python (SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, etc)
•	Partnered with SWEs, Support, and PMs to devise loan formulas and address discrepancies
•	Created coding guidelines and drove use of modern tools like Graphite throughout Engineering

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineer – PyTorch Compiler 	(github.com/pytorch/pytorch)
•	Collaborated with internal, Google, and OSS engineers in building out Symbolic Shape Analysis for PyTorch / XLA integration.
•	Built and maintained optimization passes for TorchScript, speeding up BERT by 25%
•	Built a new system for delegating and writing release notes for PyTorch, halving the time it takes for people to prepare the notes.
Software Engineer – Integrity Measurement Platform
•	Developed system to A/B test the impact new features on Facebook have on harmful content viewership using ML signals.
•	Worked with 13 different client teams: building, maintaining, and debugging 50+ metrics.
•	Mentored the onboarding of 4 Engineers and managed 2 interns for their internships.

### Teaching Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Stanford, CA
•	Taught two courses on neural networks: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition (CS231n), and Natural Language Processing with Neural Networks (CS224n) 
•	Also taught Programming Languages (CS242), where I taught Rust, OCaml, and Lua
•	Mentored hundreds of students through intro CS courses, teaching them how to think like a computer scientist in CS 107

### Software Developer Internship @ Credit Karma
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Built neural network for predicting credit card preferences (AUC 0.796 vs prod model’s 0.765)
•	Developed web push notifications support for the Credit Karma website

### Research Programmer @ UC Santa Barbara Arch Lab
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | UC Santa Barbara
•	Designed a Python library including tools for next generation hardware circuit RTL design and instrumentation. Lines of code for a given circuit are reduced 3.7x – 9x compared to Verilog.
•	First author for A Pythonic Approach for Rapid Hardware Prototyping and Instrumentation.
Implemented hardware generation optimizations for the PyRTL library

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hillsboro OR
Developer for Intel's Core Series CPU fuse and burn team.
Designed, developed and distributed an automated unit test runner in Python for team of 35.
Resolved C++ code anomalies that were flagged in Klocwork


## Education
### Master in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Bachelor's Degree in Economics
UC Santa Barbara

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara

### St. Paul's School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/johnclow

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Last updated: 2026-04-01