# Po-Yen (Andy) Chen

> Software Engineer @ Sambanova | ex-McKinsey

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/poyen

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer, ML Infra @ SambaNova Systems
Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Led the development of multiple performance features of a high-traffic, distributed ML model serving platform.
- Led deployment of large-scale models (LLaMA, DeepSeek, Mixtral) on proprietary hardware accelerators, coordinating 15+ engineers, performing accuracy validation and system-wide performance tuning.
- Unblocked major business deals by leading non-trivial cross-stack debugging across the hardware/software stack with ML, compiler, runtime, platform, and customer engineering teams.

### Senior Software Engineer, ML Infra @ SambaNova Systems
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Contributed to the development of a large-scale enterprise AI cloud platform, including implementing key features, establishing a standardized interface for 20+ ML apps, designing domain-specific languages, and automating testing and release pipelines
- Collaborated across teams to deliver NLP and computer vision model apps, monitored production ML systems, and contributed to the NLP app codebase.

### Software Engineer, ML Infra @ SambaNova Systems
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Co-founder @ GoGet 你的職涯夥伴
Jan 2020 – Present | Taipei City, Taiwan
- Co-founded GoGet, a side project helping young professionals acquire essential skills and information during job searching (through online forums, workshops, and lectures)
- Acquired 10k+ followers on Facebook, 4k+ on Instagram, and 3k+ users on GoGet website
- Led a team of 6+ (including developers, product managers, and designers) to develop the GoGet website, defining the product roadmap and managing day-to-day technical design directions

### Knowledge Analyst @ McKinsey & Company
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Taipei City, Taiwan
- Ranked top 10% in performance and was promoted to Knowledge Analyst half a year sooner than typical tenure
- Helped multiple clients optimize hardware product design, increasing 5~20% margin for products including 5G baseband stations, surveillance cameras, and home appliances
- Facilitated cross-functional idea-generation workshops within client organization to increase product value
- Performed customer testing analyses to optimize product features
- Benchmarked competitor’s product to generate design improvement ideas
- Led consulting project sub-workstreams, mentored junior colleagues, interviewed full-time and intern candidates


## Education
### Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
National Taiwan University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12