Seth Chang
Software engineer, AI researcher, and builder. CS @ UC Santa Barbara.
Experience
Operations Intern
- Researching model failure modes in frontier domains to create new projects for leading AI labs.
- Managing projects with hundreds of experts and building tooling to accelerate average handling time by up to 200% per task.
Software Engineer Intern
- Scoped and built various features end-to-end, fixed bugs, and contributed to product vision for our flagship product, leading to our product launch scaling from 1k to 10k+ users in a week.
Software Engineer Intern
- Collaborated with Cory Levy to build an internal tool for 3x faster application review using edge AI and cutting-edge optimizations for reranker models and SLMs on consumer hardware. Achieved 50x faster performance compared to SOTA solutions.
Product Manager Intern
- Advised and implemented AI-focused products from strategy and stakeholder meetings for portfolio companies.
- Collaborated with a leading construction portfolio company to identify workflow pain points and built products to save 3+ months per project.
Chief Operating Officer
- Built Factful's Chrome extension 0→1, scaling to 22k+ users.
- Onboarded data analysts from Fortune 500 companies and developed bespoke enterprise tools for their needs.
- Secured multiple investor offers — Sequoia Arc + a16z Speedrun finalist.
Research Intern
- Second-authored a paper with Prof. Diyi Yang, Prof. Graham Neubig, and Simran Khanuja on image editing. Won 2nd place in IEEE.
- Built a frontend platform for the paper that reduced navigation time by 200%, released to CMU's professional translators to test the software and generate data, and collaborated on the backend ML pipeline to 3x generation speed.
Projects
Built a Discord bot for a digital goods store that scaled to 80k+ users and $400k+ total revenue in 4 months. Overcame Discord's server scaling limitations creatively.
Built a Chrome extension that outperformed Grammarly's native Google Docs integration whilst adding more features. Grammarly has held this moat for 15+ years — first in the world to break it to this extent. Currently advising 2 YC companies on integrating this into their product. Z Fellows and Soma Scholars finalist.
Awards
Skills
JavaScript, Python, Dart / Flutter, SQL, Java, NoSQL / JSON
React, React Native, Next.js, Supabase, Firebase, Expo