# Paul L

> Ex @ Databricks, Shoreline/Nvidia | CS + Robo @ Penn

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

See more -> lohpaul.me

Ingestion @ Mooncake, Delta Lake and ETL @ Databricks, and recommendation systems @ Shoreline / Nvidia. 

Research - Involved in AI-native data systems and multimodal model labs at UPenn. Notable papers include ScaleLLM @ SIGMOD 2025 (Scaling LLM use in very large data systems) and Rajomon @ NSDI 2025 (market-based microservice overload).

Leadership - Top graduate in the Naval Junior Officers' Course as Education Officer (Singapore Navy), Head Prefect and on the executive committee of the Student Council at ACS(I), President of Penn Spark - helping to lead student members to to build both community and cool passion projects together

## Work Experience
### Founding Eng @ Mooncake Labs
Jan 2025 – Present
Coming soon! Real-time ingestion to iceberg // 1000x faster analytics in postgres

### Tinkering @ South Park Commons
Jan 2025 – Present

### Researcher @ University of Pennsylvania Engineering
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
- Scaling LLM-powered analytics on big data systems with Dr Ryan Marcus (ScaleLLM demo @ SIGMOD 2025)
- Agentic tooling / data discovery with Dr. Zachary Ives (current)
- Microservice overload control frameworks with Dr. Benjamin Lee (Rajomon Paper @ NSDI 2025)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Optimized out-of-order data pipelines by creating new APIs in the underlying Delta Lake, reducing latency by >500% for garbage collection jobs
- Initiated the first ever intern tech talks events, with more than 150 attendees and speakers from multiple teams across all the talks

Delta Live Tables Team (basically managed ETL)

### President @ Penn Spark
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
- Revamped club membership and increased # of deployed projects by 4x, focus on improving club commitment and culture (great people --> great club)

### President (Lambda Chapter) @ IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer Intern @ Shoreline.io (Acquired by NVIDIA)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Mateo, California, United States
- Designed and implemented end-to-end semantic search engine, specifically focused on re-ranking algorithms research. (deployed to production pre-acquisition)

### Teaching Assistant - Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Leads homework design for 300 students. Personally added 6 new problems to core curriculum (personal favourite: BFS speed-ups of classic dynamic programming problems and information storage by merkel trees / hashes)

Classes taught: CIS 121 (Homework Head), CIS 160

### Naval Officer @ Republic of Singapore Navy
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Naval Junior Officers Course Top Graduate (1 / 50)
Officer Cadet Course Sword of Merit
Midshipman Commanding Officer for 87th MIDS


## Education
### Computer Science + Robotics
University of Pennsylvania

### International Baccalaureate Diploma in Higher Level Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/paul-loh-kwok-eu
- Website: https://lohpaul.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-05