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Albert C. Lai

Former Senior Software Engineer at Credit Karma

United States
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Years Experience

11

Roles

38

Skills

7

Education

About

Albert is a former Senior Software Engineer at Credit Karma, where he specialized in Recommendation Systems, and previously served as a Co-founder and Technical Team Lead at ShoutAbout, Inc." He graduated from UCLA with a BS in Neuroscience and from USC with 4 distinct Master's (Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Public Administration, and International Relations). Albert has a clear passion for learning and always appreciates the opportunity to broaden his knowledge base. Previously, Albert had the honor of serving 2 consecutive terms as the elected graduate student body president, spent several years as a research assistant, graduate assistant, and teaching assistant in multiple different courses and departments. He enjoys contributing back and is quick to adapt and thrive in pretty much any environment. Albert has a diverse set of interests and continually looks to widen and deepen his knowledge base. In his free time, he enjoys a delicious meal in the company of good friends, talking about how to improve society, laughing over inside jokes, and thinking about the next good travel location for night photography.

Experience (11 roles)

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Career Break

Current
May 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos·Taiwan, Taiwan

- Navigating Parental Loss & Bereavement - Heritage Pilgrimage to Taiwan - Genealogical Preservation & Family Legacy - Building a Digital Family Archive - Personal Growth Through Life’s Milestones - Adapting to Life Abroad - Developing Humility Through the Immigration Process

Full-time · 4 yrs 8 mos

2 roles · Sep 2014 - Apr 2019

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Key Accomplishments: • Architect of microservice-based Recommendation System (RecSys, successor of KRS) • Primary interfacing engineer for troubleshooting both current (RecSys) and legacy (KRS) recommendation systems and associated monolithic services • Critical engineer in Credit Karma’s initiative...

Software Engineer

Sep 2014 - Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Key Accomplishments: • Definitive domain expert of Credit Karma’s monolithic recommendation system, ‘Karma Recommendation System’ (KRS) • Design and develop both CLI and GUI administrative tooling for management, validation, and deployment of KRS pipelines • Design and develop D3-based visualization...

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Co-Founder & Technical Team Lead

ShoutAbout, Inc · Full-time

Jun 2011 - Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 7 mos·Orange County, California Area · On-site

Key Accomplishments: • Architect of ShoutAbout’s recommendation system that enables nonprofits and political campaigns to strategically provide relevant contextual opportunities for readers to ‘learn more’ and ‘take action’ on news that they care about • Led the technical development of (full-stack)...

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Education (7)

University of Southern California

University of Southern California

2008 - 2011

* Emphasis in: International Political Economy * Teaching Assistant: IR 358 - The Asia Pacific in World Affairs

University of Southern California

University of Southern California

2008 - 2011

Activities and societies: : • GPAC (Graduate Policy Administration Community) Webmaster • SPPD APIC (Asian Pacific Islander Caucus) Co-founder, Secretary • Pi Alpha Alpha (Public Administration National Honor Society) * 1st Place Deloitte Case Challenge - 2008 * Awarded: "Most Outstanding TA" * Teaching Assistant: • BISC 120L - Advanced General Biology: Organismal Biology & Evolution, • BISC 121L - Advanced General Biology: Cell Biology & Physiology

University of Southern California

University of Southern California

2004 - 2006

* Specialization in: Multimedia and Creative Technologies

Skills (38)

ResearchPython (Programming Language)BloggingGitCSSGovernmentZend FrameworkJSONCombineHTML5CSS3JavaScriptjQueryPHPMySQLGitAWSCloudRDSEC2NonprofitsData AnalysisCSS3HTML5LinuxWordPress3ds MaxPythonPHPJavaScriptjQueryTeachingStrategic PlanningProgrammingSocial Media MarketingInternational RelationsHTMLMySQL
Certifications (3)

Photography Foundations: Exposure

Lynda.com

Introduction to Photography

Lynda.com

100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp

Udemy

Languages (2)
Chinese(Professional working proficiency)English(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Honors & Awards (3)

Most Outstanding TA

Issued by BISC, University of Southern California

Associated with University of Southern California

1st Place - Deloitte Case Challenge (Competition)

Issued by Deloitte · Jan 2008

Associated with University of Southern California

Pi Alpha Alpha

Jan 2011

Associated with University of Southern California Public Affairs and Administration National Honor Society (Top 10% in Nation)

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Albert C. Lai is currently working as Career Break.
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Albert C. Lai studied Master of Arts, International Relations at University of Southern California. They have 7 education entries on their profile.
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Albert C. Lai's top skills include Research, Python (Programming Language), Blogging, Git, CSS. They have 38 skills listed on their profile.
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