Xudong Liang (Brandon)

Experience

Bloomberg L.P. Machine Learning & Senior Software Engineer

February 2021 - Present New York, NY

  • AI infrastructure (Server-less inference hosting) & NLP (Automated information extraction) @ Bloomberg AI Group
  • Programming Language: Python (modeling & micro-service) & C++ (infrastructure & service back-end)
  • Tech Stack: Kafka, Kubernetes, Jenkins (CI/CD), Transformers (Hugging Face), Scikit-Learn, PyTorch


  • Columbia Engineering DVMM Lab Research Assistant

    September 2020 - Januray 2021 New York, NY

  • Project: Retrieval-Augmented Generation on GPT2-based Vision-Language Transformer for Schema Induction


  • Columbia Engineering Course Assistant

    September 2020 - December 2020 New York, NY

  • Graded homework and project assignments, held weekly office hours and answered student questions for COMS 6998 Practical Deep Learning & System Performance for Professor Parijat Dube during Fall 2020


  • Tresata Data Engineer

    February 2017 - April 2019 New York, NY

  • Created, Delivered, Automated and Productionized end-to-end data solutions for financial institution clients (e.g.: HSBC) for compliance/regulatory reporting use cases like KYC, using Hadoop, Spark, Scala and proprietary data profiling, entity resolution & interactive front-end data delivery software powered by Elasticsearch
  • DevOps: Quality Assurance in Production, Software (Solution) Upgrade in Deployment & Vendor Support
  • HSBC Selects Tresata to Automate Data Powered Digital and Analytics For Global Banking and Markets
  • Tresata Announces Investment from GCP Capital Partners, Valuing Company at $1 Billion
  • Programming Language: Scala
  • Tech Stack: Spark, MapReduce, Hadoop, Elasticsearch


  • Tresata Solutions Engineer Intern

    June 2016 - August 2016 Charlotte, NC

  • Trained on Hadoop Eco-System and Hadoop Distributed File System in command line environment (bash scripting, vim editing), MapReduce (e.g.: Scalding) and functional programming language, Scala
  • Research Project: Analyzed the effectiveness of Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) on consumer finance (mortgage) using HDFS and internal data profiling & data delivery software powered by Elasticsearch & Kibana


  • Davidson College Math & Science Center Math & Computer Science Tutor

    August 2015 - December 2016 Davidson, NC

  • Helped tutor students in computer science & programming(Python, Java, C) and math courses