
Albert C. Lai
Former Senior Software Engineer at Credit Karma
Updated 8 months ago
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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.
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Experience (11 roles)
Career Break
Current- 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
2 roles · Sep 2014 - Apr 2019
Senior Software Engineer
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
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...
Co-Founder & Technical Team Lead
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
2008 - 2011
* Emphasis in: International Political Economy * Teaching Assistant: IR 358 - The Asia Pacific in World Affairs
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
2004 - 2006
* Specialization in: Multimedia and Creative Technologies
Skills (38)
Certifications (3)▼
Photography Foundations: Exposure
Lynda.com
Introduction to Photography
Lynda.com
100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp
Udemy
Languages (2)▼
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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