Boris Lau
Staff Software Engineer, SRE MLOps at Khan Academy
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBoris Lau is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in SRE and MLOps at Khan Academy, where he designs and scales back-end data stacks and front-end interfaces for a large-scale behaviour database. He thrives on research and prototyping—turning ideas into production-ready systems and presenting findings at conferences to spark feedback and discussion. With 11 years of experience, his career spans Khan Academy, Mobify, and founding Pathful, preceded by early virus research roles at Sophos. This unusual mix blends security-minded thinking with data engineering, reliability, and scalable infrastructure, enabling him to productionize prototypes into robust, real-world workflows. Based in Vancouver, Canada, and holding a BA in Computing from the University of Oxford, he brings a global, research-informed perspective to building AI/ML-powered systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computing, BA, Computing at University of Oxford
Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
55reputation
9kreached
4answers
6questions
Github Skills (187)
filterlist10
python10
circleci10
jenkins-plugin10
ublock-origin10
pandas10
adblock10
blocking10
predict10
filter10
cookie10
docker10
google-appengine10
jenkins-jobs10
jenkins10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Khan/label-studio-frontend
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024
Data labeling react app that is backend agnostic and can be embedded into your applications — distributed as an NPM package
Contributions:14 reviews, 17 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year
dat-boris/graphitty
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 9 months
discoverpython-librarypythontime-series-analysisgraph
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