UBC X-Lab now
Research assistant in Prof. Robert Xiao's lab, building a VR tool for editing volumetric scenes in real time. I work on keeping the render loop fast enough for a headset, and on direct manipulation of large sets of primitives.
Brandon Chen
I'm a software engineer who loves building systems and ML pipelines. I love playing soccer and going to the gym, and I'm also learning how to sew. Computer science at UBC, Vancouver.
Work
Peripheral Labs
Fourteen months on the team behind volumetric video of live sports. I built the AWS pipeline that runs the processing, the FastAPI backend in front of it, and the CI/CD that ships each stage, and kept multi-day GPU training runs alive on a SLURM cluster. On the ML side, I co-designed a dynamic-scene 3D reconstruction method in PyTorch.
Pixel Light Effects
Built a 3D reconstruction pipeline over photogrammetry captures, from COLMAP structure-from-motion to photorealistic reconstructions the artists worked from. Also automated deployment with Bash, Nginx templates and systemd.
Toolbox
- cloud and infrastructure
- AWS Batch, Fargate, EventBridge, MediaConvert, S3, DynamoDB, ECR · Docker · GitHub Actions · SLURM · Linux · Nginx · Vercel · Supabase
- backend
- Python · FastAPI · TypeScript · Node.js · Next.js · Prisma · PostgreSQL · SQL · Auth0 · NextAuth
- vision and ML
- PyTorch · 3D Gaussian splatting · COLMAP · CUDA rasterization · C++
Project
Club organizational hub
An operations hub for a student club's executive team: announcements, tasks, department boards, event requests and a shared calendar, with role-based access. Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and Prisma on Supabase, NextAuth, deployed on Vercel.
Contact
- brandon.zchen6@gmail.com
- github
- brandonzchen
- in/brandon-chen7
- resume