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Andrew C. Chan

Los Angeles, CA

Engineer, True Bruin, Blue Jay

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Experience

Senior Principal AI Software Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corporate Office
September 2024 - Present

Corporate AI Service Lead -- deploy a scalable enterprise GenAI LLM inference service for thousands of users via vLLM, Docker, API gateways. Enable AI acceleration of software engineering development, assess and integrate vendor tools, size GPU hardware, mature AI offering roadmap, deploy AI analytics via python and SQL on AWS and Azure.

Manager Software Engineering 2

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems
March 2023 - September 2024

Technical lead — provide direction for data & AI/ML software services using Large Language Models (OpenAI API, Vector Databases, RAG), event streaming (Apache Kafka), graph data warehousing (Neo4j), and fullstack (Python, Node.js) technologies. Patent awarded in 2024.

Product management — drive value creation, prioritize product roadmap, execute agile tasking, negotiate customer requirements, and grow large engineering teams to execute rapid software prototypes.

Software Systems -- developed Cameo SysML Activity Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Internal Block Diagrams, custom profiles for large scale systems.

Principal AI Software Engineer

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems
September 2021 - March 2023

Reinforcement Learning Agent — Developing a transformative, cloud native reinforcement learning system applicable to diverse simulation platforms. Utilizing AWS SageMaker for GPU training jobs, hyperparameter tuning, and endpoint inference, Apache Airflow for MLOps, and TensorFlow for deep learning.

Knowledge Graph Analytics — Invented a graph data science platform using Node.js and Neo4j to analyze 400k model nodes and identify and reduce over 1K model based Cameo SysML systems engineering (MBSE) architecture defects for multi-billion dollar projects. Translated customer business needs into data science tasks for 5 software engineers, secured funding, and defended model results at customer meetings.

AI Software Engineer

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems
October 2019 - September 2021

Computer Vision — created an image classification pipeline for 4 terabytes of image data. Used regex parsing via Python for data preprocessing, Keras for scratch training of LeNet architectures and transfer learning using pretrained VGG, ResNet, and Inception networks.

Natural Language Processing — created a sentiment analysis system utilizing Scikit-learn. Used stop word reduction, data balancing, regex replacement.

Anomaly Detection — programmed IOT embedded sensors via Python and C++, wrote bash scripts for automated data collection, used Scikit-learn for anomaly detection.

Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
October 2016 - October 2019

Developing a predictive analytics system utilizing IOT sensors and machine learning. Programmed Java plugins to connect a System Architecture Modeling Tool via OpenAPI calls. Developed descriptive architectures in UML, SysML, and UPDM to manage complex systems.

Automatic Test Equipment Intern

Boston Scientific Neuromodulation
June 2015 - September 2015

Programmed in LabVIEW to control NI DAQ cards to determine resonant frequencies of a wireless charger. Wrote hardware validation procedures.

Distribution Standards Engineering Trainee

Southern California Edison
June 2014 - August 2014

Wrote standards procedures for composite pole pilots and updated various existing distribution standards procedures.

Personal Projects

Historical Stock Calculator

Created a stock calculator that uses HTTP calls to take data from the Alphavantage database and calculate a linear regression and stock return.

Mobilenet Image Classifier

Created a image classifier via Tensorflow.js and Mobilenet.

Education

Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

Master of Science

Computer Science

August 2018 - May 2022

University of California Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science

Electrical Engineering - Computer Science Technical Breadth

GPA: 3.361

September 2012 - June 2016

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Python, Java, C++, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Sklearn, UML, SysML, UPDM, git

Interests

Machine Learning, DIY Electronics, Foodie Adventures

Awards & Certifications

MBSE to Graph Database Translator US Patent 12038942

Engineering Achievement Award for Student Welfare--leadership in the UCLA IEEE Student Group

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