# Rodger Pang

Rodger Pang is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior AI Architect at NetApp, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@rodgerpang

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Senior AI Architect at NetApp designing NetAIChat's RAG architecture and guardrails for trusted enterprise AI workflows.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 160k+ USD |
| Job categories | AI Architect, Software Developer, Software Engineer |
| Skills | Generative AI, RAG, Large Language Model (LLM) Evaluation, Responsible AI, AI Governance, Text To SQL, Prompt Engineering, Hallucination Detection, Factuality, Source, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI Models, Weaviate, Vector Databases, Enterprise Architecture |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/rodgerpang |

## About

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At NetApp, I define the RAG architecture and guardrails for NetAIChat, connecting enterprise documents to Azure OpenAI through controlled retrieval, source grounding, and content filtering. I also design Text-to-SQL safeguards and evaluate systems for hallucination, factuality, bias, and data exposure.

At AWS Annapurna Labs, I developed C/C++ Linux systems software and Python validation workflows for ML accelerator servers, including Trainium2. Earlier at AMD, I contributed to yield improvement across UltraScale+ products and automated silicon analysis with Python and Snowflake SQL.
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## Experience

### Senior AI Architect (current)

[NetApp](https://himalayas.app/companies/netapp). Oct 2024 - Present

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Defines RAG architecture and guardrails for NetAIChat, an internal generative AI assistant, and leads architecture reviews for enterprise AI integrations. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to translate responsible-AI principles into acceptance criteria.
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Skills: Azure-OpenAI, RAG, Vector-Databases, Weaviate, Text-To-SQL, Snowflake, LLM-Evaluation, Responsible-AI, AI-Governance, Prompt-Engineering, System-Prompts, Content-Filtering, IAM, Data-Authorization, Enterprise-Architecture, Stakeholder-Collaboration

### Software Development Engineer II, ML Acceleration Systems Software

[Amazon Web Services - Annapurna Labs](https://himalayas.app/companies/amazon-web-services-aws). Oct 2023 - Sep 2024

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Developed C/C++ Linux systems software for ML accelerator servers, implementing device discovery, I2C peripheral initialization, and clock/voltage configuration for hardware bring-up. Automated server qualification and hardware validation in Python, and performed root cause analysis across systems software, firmware, and silicon.
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Skills: C, C++, Linux, AWS-Neuron, Trainium2, I2C, PCIe, Device-Registers, Firmware-Integration, Hardware-Monitoring, System-Bring-Up, Testing-Automation, Root-Cause-Analysis, Hardware-Validation, Performance-Testing, Regression-Testing, Debugging, Python, EC2

### Software Engineer II, NPI Product Engineering

[AMD (formerly Xilinx)](https://himalayas.app/companies/amd). Jul 2021 - Oct 2023

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Contributed to approximately 15% yield improvement across UltraScale+ 16nm SKUs through power/performance analysis and optimization of specification limits. Automated distribution, correlation, and Pareto analysis in Python and Snowflake SQL for repeatable yield investigations.
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Skills: Python, Snowflake, SQL, Data-Quality, Anomaly-Detection, Statistical-Analysis, Data-Visualization, Tableau, Yield-Optimization, Specification-Limit-Analysis, ATE, UltraScale+-16nm, Versal-7nm, FPGA, Adaptive-SoC, NPI, Data-Pipelines, ETL

### Software Engineer, NPI Product Engineering

[AMD (formerly Xilinx)](https://himalayas.app/companies/amd). Dec 2018 - Jun 2021

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Reduced data-manipulation time by approximately 90% through Python ETL pipelines and internal API integration. Built characterization analytics for Versal 7nm adaptive SoC devices and delivered Tableau dashboards on curated Snowflake datasets.
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Skills: Python, ETL, Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, Data-Pipelines, Data-Ingestion, Data-Warehouse, Data-Quality, Data-Cleaning, Data-Validation, Internal-API-Integration, Versal-7nm, Adaptive-SoC, NPI, Characterization, ATE

## Education

### Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science, Computer Science. 2026 - Present

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Pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, expected to complete in 2027.
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### University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Science, Engineering Physics. 2014 - 2018

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Earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from the College of Engineering.
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## Tech stack

- Snowflake
- Tableau
- Amazon EC2
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- MongoDB
- MariaDB
- Node.js
- Redis
- React
- JavaScript
- Python
- C++
- C
- RabbitMQ
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Linux
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- SQL
- Weaviate
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

To contact Rodger, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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