AI Infrastructure · Systems · Security

Claire Chen

Visionary, tactical, and collaborative software engineer. Passionate about designing efficient, secure, and scalable systems; building; and delivering a measurable impact.

Now

Designing efficient, secure, and scalable AI infrastructure.

I partner with technical leaders and engineering teams at leading AI companies to architect, build, and harden what they run on Modal.

Modal Forward Deployed ML Engineer Since 2026
Rust Go Python TypeScript

Protecting production launches

I root-cause the failures that only surface under real production load, and ship the fixes deep in the platform runtime, so launches hold.

Architecting for scale

I lead technical scoping for platform migrations, redesigning how workloads are structured so teams can keep growing without re-platforming.

Compute efficiency

I built a reusable analysis that turns raw utilization data into recovered spend, and it is becoming a product surface rather than a one-off.

Data-driven product and pricing

I turn fleet-wide telemetry into pricing, SLA, and roadmap decisions, and work with product teams to put the metrics that matter in front of customers.

Inference performance

I benchmark model inference so teams choose their hardware, runtime, and serving shape on evidence instead of guesswork.

Developer experience

I map platform semantics end to end so the documented path is also the correct one.

Previously: Azure core HPC and AI training platform at Microsoft; usable privacy and security research at CMU CyLab (publications). Computer Science grad from Carnegie Mellon University.

Selected projects

Systems I built from scratch.

01 Unix-Style Operating System C x86-64 Kernel 2025
02 Parallel VLSI Wire-Routing C++ OpenMP MPI 2024
03 GPU-Accelerated Video Renderer CUDA GPU 2024
04 Systems Programming Suite C Unix 2022

Research

Usable privacy and security.