# Rose Chou

> SWE @ Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) | ex-Amazon, Microsoft, TrendMicro

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rosechou

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Grammarly
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
1. Launched configurable AWS EMR setups and Graviton EC2 instances, reducing cost from $1M to $400K; Transformed model processing to parallel State Machines, improving matcher step runtime by 53.46%.
2. Enhanced product matching by deploying an image + text machine learning model, achieving a 56% increase in feature effectiveness and 89% precision in matching, through S3 artifact, workflow testing, and validation.
3. Streamlined configurations via Amazon Config Store, boosting scalability and cutting oncall tickets by 15 yearly.

### Student Ambassador @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Illinois, United States

### Research Assistant @ National Taiwan University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan
1. Optimized on-the-fly model checking and software verification for concurrent C programs with Nested DFS and SCC-based search algorithms.
2. Researched advanced search optimization algorithms combined with partial order reduction techniques that eliminate the state-space in multithreaded programs and cut search duration by 50%.
3. Built and reproduced counter-examples with original program statements and the corresponding property states, successfully identifying and eliminating 80% of bugs, thereby improving code reliability and performance.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Trend Micro
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Taiwan
1. Developed automated software verification systems for mobile and web applications, which enabled a 20% time saving in identifying technical issues.
2. Conducted QA methodologies, including black box, functional, and stress testing to ensure software performance.
3. Utilized Wireshark for packet analysis, employing Regular Expression filters to detect malware from streams.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan
1. Created an on-device IoT data-collection application with Azure, and developed a Power BI dashboard to track and visualize real-time analytics on streaming data.
2. Reinvented the company's recruiting and user experience by architecting a web contest platform with Django, attracting over 5,000 students to participate in the career fair.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Master of Science - MS
National Taiwan University

### Bachelor's degree
National Central University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rosechou
- Website: https://github.com/rosechou

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Last updated: 2026-04-05