Yingbei Tong
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYingbei Tong is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in California with a decade of experience building and operationalizing ML systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has deep hands-on expertise in LLM training and fine-tuning, classical ML pipelines, and Python data-science libraries, and has repeatedly delivered production services using Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and cloud-native microservices. His career spans roles at NVIDIA, Obot AI, Rancher Labs, and IBM—where he led development of a Log Anomaly Detection component for Watson AIOps—demonstrating strength in both research-driven modeling and scalable deployment. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges model development and infrastructure, and his Github bio, "The fool who dreams," hints at a creative drive that propels practical innovation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Technology at Fudan University
Github Skills (91)
function-call10
chat10
lora10
quantization10
cpp10
monitoring10
llm-inference10
ai10
fine-tuning10
observability10
large-language-models10
logging10
chatgpt9
openai-api9
generative-ai9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rubra-ai/tools.cpp
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
LLM inference in C/C++, further modified for Rubra function calling models
Contributions:13 PRs, 72 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
cppfunction-callingllm-inference
tybalex/otto8-tools
Dec 2024 - Sep 2025
the home of official GPTScript tools
Contributions:337 pushes, 140 branches in 9 months
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