Willy Liang
Willy Liang

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 18 Aug 2026
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Location
Bellevue, United States
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Unspecified
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Remote Only / Full Time
Experience level
Senior

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I am a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with more than nine years of experience building production-grade AI and machine learning systems across consumer technology, healthcare, and foundation model applications.

I specialize in generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, model evaluation, and scalable inference. I take AI products from research prototypes through reliable, secure production deployment.

In my current work, I contribute to multimodal text-to-video systems, building distributed training and inference pipelines for transformer and diffusion models. I focus on GPU efficiency, reproducible experimentation, dataset quality, evaluation, safety, and operational reliability.

I have also developed large-scale ranking, recommendation, forecasting, and personalization solutions for consumer marketplaces. My experience includes feature engineering at scale, online experimentation, low-latency APIs, monitoring, model retraining, and data-driven product improvements.

Earlier in my career, I built clinical NLP and conversation intelligence systems for healthcare applications. I have experience delivering HIPAA-conscious machine learning solutions for entity recognition, clinical extraction, summarization, and real-time inference.

I enjoy collaborating with research, product, data, and infrastructure teams to build maintainable ML platforms. I also mentor engineers on distributed machine learning, MLOps, software engineering, and production deployment best practices.

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Career history

Senior Machine Learning Engineer OpenAI

I contribute to the development and productionization of Sora, OpenAI's multimodal text-to-video generation system. I work with research and platform engineering teams to build distributed training and inference pipelines for transformer and diffusion models using PyTorch and FSDP, improving GPU utilization and reducing multi-node training time.

I design preprocessing, dataset versioning, evaluation, and experiment-tracking workflows for video, image, and text data. My work includes automated quality and safety evaluation, asynchronous inference services, optimized batching, mixed-precision execution, model parallelism, Kubernetes-based ML infrastructure, observability, deployment automation, and mentoring engineers on distributed ML and MLOps practices.

Data Scientist Airbnb

I developed large-scale machine learning models for Airbnb's search ranking and personalization platform, improving marketplace relevance and the guest booking experience. I built feature engineering pipelines processing billions of search events, listing attributes, and marketplace interactions with Apache Spark, and created learning-to-rank, recommendation, and demand forecasting models.

I implemented production ML workflows covering feature generation, training, validation, deployment, continuous retraining, and monitoring. I also designed large-scale A/B experiments, developed low-latency inference APIs, partnered on distributed ETL and feature-store improvements, and mentored engineers on scalable ML systems, software development, and API design.

Machine Learning Engineer Abridge

I developed production machine learning solutions for a clinical conversation intelligence platform, helping clinicians and patients understand medical conversations through automated extraction and summarization. I built NLP models for medical entity recognition, clinical concept extraction, dialogue classification, medication and diagnosis identification, and clinical summarization using Python, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and transformer architectures.

I created secure, low-latency FastAPI inference services and automated ML workflows for preprocessing, training, evaluation, deployment, and versioning using MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. I also developed evaluation and drift-monitoring systems, collaborated on distributed clinical-document ETL pipelines, and maintained HIPAA-conscious data security, auditability, and operational reliability.

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Learning history

Syracuse University

Master of Science, Computer Science

University of Florida

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

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