Alan Lu

Founder

About

Build products that make people’s lives better.

Country

United States

City

Santa Clara

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Software Development, Distributed Systems, Agile Methodologies, Hadoop, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Java, Online Advertising, Transactional In-Memory Database, Data Analysis, C++, Perl, Apache Pig, RDBMS, Unix, C, Fraud Detection, Modeling

Experience

Founder

Stealth (AI empowered medicine)

2023-10 - Present · 3 yrs

Vice President of Engineering and Applied Science

Forethought

2022-10 - 2023-10 · 1 yr 1 mo

Our AI (NLP) is your key to better and more cost efficient customer service. I lead the world class engineering and applied science department at Forethought - ML, core platform, product engineering and forward deployment engineering. Ping me if you want to see how we can help you.

Head of Amazon Style Applied Science and Machine Learning Engineering

Amazon

2020-4 - 2022-10 · 2 yrs 7 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Applied research in Computer Vision, NLP, Recommendation, and Search. Offline systems and ML tools. Runtime ML services and tools.

Head of Search Science and Search Experience, Sr. Director of Applied Science and Engineering

eBay

2018-12 - 2020-4 · 1 yr 5 mos

San Jose, California

eBay search powers one of the largest online marketplaces in the world.

Head of Engineering and Applied Science - New Product Development

eBay

2018-6 - 2018-12 · 7 mos

San Jose

We built a new Web and iOS app eBay experience for Chinese shoppers on the Google Cloud from the ground up. It is powered by machine translation, real-time semantic search, recommendation, localized registration, and improved checkout with local payment options.