Peter Xi Chen

Software developer specializing in big data infrastructure and platforms for analytics and machine learning
...and budding amateur Hegelian philosopher, Gothic architectural historian, East Asian sociologist.

About Me

I graduated from Princeton University in June 2019 with an undergraduate degree in Operations Research, focusing on data mining, machine learning, and stochastic processes. I am currently employed as a software engineer at Amazon building data infrastructure to help improve Alexa conversational AI. Previously, I've worked as a software engineer at Capital One developing a data platform to support credit card anti-fraud machine learning. I've lived in Tokyo, Bay Area, Shanghai, New York, Washington DC, and currently based in Los Angeles. I speak English and Mandarin Chinese natively and a bit of Korean and Latin.

Accelerating the AI Apocalypse

I am a software engineer specializing in data and machine learning infrastructure. If data is the new gold rush, I make the pickaxes. My expertise is in designing and developing self-service data lakes and data processing pipelines. Primarily work in Python, TypeScript, Java, with strong distributed systems, databases, AWS, Spark/Hadoop ecosystem experience. I am interested in transformative consumer experiences enabled by data, particularly in financial services, transportation/logistics, and artificial intelligence domains. Always eager to learn about new technologies, research, and data-driven products!

Hobbies and Interests

Beyond math, I enjoy studying artistic and historic movements as well as teleological and phenomenological philosophy, in particular works of Hegel, Nietzsche, and what little I can understand of Heidegger. Avid Boston Celtics and New England Patriots, actively converting to LA Clippers and Rams, fan. Fitness fanatic and an advocate of plant-based diets. Appreciate video gaming as interactive art and especially love JRPGs. Sneakerhead selectively dipping into streetwear. Listen to a wide variety of music genres, lately lots of hip-hop, city pop, k-pop, mandopop, and visual kei. I also played clarinet and trumpet in marching band and danced, albeit not very well, in a dance group back in college.

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