Summary
Hien Luu is a seasoned software engineering leader specializing in scalable ML and GenAI infrastructure, with over a decade of experience building high-throughput, low-latency ML platforms. At Zoox, he leads the ML Platform team to advance autonomous driving capabilities and rider experiences through scalable ML infrastructure. Previously at DoorDash, he built and led a scalable ML infrastructure organization that accelerated model serving, feature stores, and real-time feature engineering at gigascale. An active educator and author, he teaches AI strategy at UCSC Extension and has written Beginning Apache Spark (and Spark 3) as well as MLOps with Ray. His career spans leadership roles at LinkedIn, Uber, and other major tech firms, where he shaped big-data and real-time analytics platforms. Based in San Jose, California, he holds an MS in Software Engineering from San Jose State University and a BSEE from the University of Washington.
3 years of coding experience