I am a Staff ML Engineer focusing on backend systems, large-scale data pipelines, recommendation systems, content moderation, and emerging LLM-agent architectures. At Glassdoor, I delivered multi-stage job recommendations, built a cross-brand policy-aware RAG moderation system, and architected an AI support agent powered by LangGraph. I previously designed Spark pipelines and full-stack analytics tools for healthcare claims and payment integrity at Cotiviti, and I enjoy turning complex data problems into scalable production systems. I thrive in building end-to-end data tooling and distributed systems that ship value in production.

YIXUAN (PHILLIP) G U

I am a Staff ML Engineer focusing on backend systems, large-scale data pipelines, recommendation systems, content moderation, and emerging LLM-agent architectures. At Glassdoor, I delivered multi-stage job recommendations, built a cross-brand policy-aware RAG moderation system, and architected an AI support agent powered by LangGraph. I previously designed Spark pipelines and full-stack analytics tools for healthcare claims and payment integrity at Cotiviti, and I enjoy turning complex data problems into scalable production systems. I thrive in building end-to-end data tooling and distributed systems that ship value in production.

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I am a Staff ML Engineer focusing on backend systems, large-scale data pipelines, recommendation systems, content moderation, and emerging LLM-agent architectures. At Glassdoor, I delivered multi-stage job recommendations, built a cross-brand policy-aware RAG moderation system, and architected an AI support agent powered by LangGraph.

I previously designed Spark pipelines and full-stack analytics tools for healthcare claims and payment integrity at Cotiviti, and I enjoy turning complex data problems into scalable production systems. I thrive in building end-to-end data tooling and distributed systems that ship value in production.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Glassdoor
July 1, 2019 - November 1, 2021
Maintained indexing pipelines, consolidated Lucene indexes into OpenSearch, and added similarity embeddings to ranking, supporting improved search and discovery features.
Voyager Search at Glassdoor
November 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022
Helped migrate legacy job and employer search services from Solr and Lucene to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. Productionized ranked search models and enhanced observability with Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Glassdoor
March 1, 2022 - July 1, 2024
Atlas (Job Discovery & Recommendation): designed a production multi-stage recommender; built hybrid candidate generation using OpenSearch BM25 and ANN vector search; integrated AI Guided Job Search; developed LLM-based match-quality labeling and RAG-based job insights.
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Glassdoor
July 1, 2024 - Present
Aquila (Glassdoor Support AI Assistant): Architected LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow for routing, retrieval, reasoning, and escalation across support domains; built MCP tool layer exposing internal systems as safe tools; implemented a policy-aware RAG moderation layer with citations; added automated escalation and telemetry.
Software Engineer at Cotiviti
November 1, 2015 - July 1, 2019
Spark pipelines powering payment integrity analytics in a healthcare data lake; Spark ETL for multi-terabyte claims; validation and anomaly detection; built full-stack analytics portal (REST/GraphQL backends, React dashboards); RBAC, export tools, search; Docker deployment and on-call support.
Senior Software Engineer at Glassdoor - Voyager Search
November 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022
Helped migrate legacy job and employer search services from Solr/Lucene into Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. Productionized ranked search models. Added Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana.

Education

MS in Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2015
BS in Materials Chemistry at Nankai University
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
MS in Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2015
BS in Materials Chemistry at Nankai University
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026

Qualifications

Generative AI with Large Language Models
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Natural Language Processing with Attention Models
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Deploying Machine Learning Models in Production
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Natural Langra Processing with Sequence Models
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
AWS Certified Developer
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Generative AI with Large Language Models
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Natural Language Processing with Attention Models
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Deploying Machine Learning Models in Production
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Natural Language Processing with Sequence Models
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
AWS Certified Developer
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services