About

Long Chen is the Founder and CEO of Avocado Inc., a technology company that aims to improve large-scale recruitment and interview processes through asynchronous video interviews and artificial intelligence. With over 3 years of experience as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Chinese search engine company Baidu, Long is proficient in algorithm and software development using Python and C++, and has diversified skill sets covering data analysis on Linux and Hadoop, as well as agile development. He has acquired more than 20 patents and has participated in developing several products. Long's education background includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, a Master of Engineering in Computer Software Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Software Engineering from the same institution. He has also worked as a Software Engineer at Square and as a Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft, where he created an upload processor to collect, process, and upload distributed data to Azure streaming analytic platform, and designed and implemented Azure streaming analytic tasks on Azure platform to do data statistic and aggregation, significantly improving the efficiency of the original database-based Read-Process-Write system. Long is experienced in human resources, NLP in Chinese or English, and is currently looking for a CTO, Senior CV or NLP scientist, and Head of Business for Avocado Inc. His company is funded by Sequoia, GSR, YC China, and Shunwei Capital. Long's tech stack includes Software Engineer, NLP, Python, Research Scientist, Hadoop, Search, Senior Software Engineer, Azure, and Computer Vision. With 9.20 years of relevant experience, Long is a skilled and knowledgeable professional in the field of technology.