Full-Stack Engineer · AI Research
“To be a great engineer means to be comfortable becoming a beginner again.”
I believe the best work comes from building things you're genuinely passionate about, even if it means starting from scratch. This is where I document my journey creating and shipping projects. Success or failure, each one is a step towards becoming a better engineer, builder, and founder. Follow along as I continue turning ideas into reality.
Tao Sun
Boston, MA
Cofounded Revalve, an AI pricing intelligence platform for the resale market. Built and shipped the cross-platform valuation system end to end, from the backend that powers fair market valuations to the mobile app and Chrome extension that surface those insights to users. Engineered scalable offline data pipelines for price ingestion and forecasting.
Joined Liberty Mutual as a software engineer working on their global underwriting platform, which powers 60+ insurance products across multiple regions.
Rejoined Liberty Mutual for a second internship, building machine learning models to forecast enterprise asset costs and sharpen cost planning across large-scale infrastructure.
Worked together with Hack the Future, a local nonprofit, to build a web app called Foodfinder that streamlined and coordinated food delivery operations.
First joined Liberty Mutual as a software engineering intern, building internal platform tooling to automate application monitoring and performance analysis as a part of their DevOps team.
Rejoined Purdue VIP as an undergraduate AI researcher working on computer vision and object tracking for autonomous robotics systems.
Joined Facebook × Purdue Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) as an undergraduate AI researcher focused on low-power computer vision, working with YOLOv5 object detection model.
