Matthew Evan Taruno

Masters of Science in Technology Innovation, Robotics Track

Dual Degree Program

Masters of Science in Data Science & Information Technology

Dual Degree Program

Bachelor of Science in Data Science

Minor in Business

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon

Summer 2025

• Upcoming Software Development Engineer Intern for Summer 2025.

Software Engineer Intern

Zhipu.AI

Dec 2023 - July 2024

• Developed and researched software engineering agents (based on SWE-Agent and Agentless) on top of GLM family of models. Ran experiments and benchmarks to improve model software engineering performance.
• Curated a 250+ entry benchmark dataset from 10 open-source repos for internal RAG evaluation.
• Collaborated with engineering and product teams, providing key feedback on user experience to extend the CodeGeeX assistant's repository-level query understanding. Developed a pipeline of embedding, retrieval algorithms, chunking, and in-context learning, achieving a baseline top-k retrieval accuracy of 35%.

Solutions Architect

Alibaba Cloud

Mar 2022 – July 2023

• Pre-sales consultant, trainer, and support engineer for cross-functional teams of engineers, business development, clients, and partners, directing the design and implementation of big data and AI initiatives for over 60 companies across fintech, airlines, logistics, and government sectors in Southeast Asia.
• Led key initiatives: Building OLAP data warehouse on cloud, data management and governance with DataWorks, cloud transactional database management, Hadoop ecosystem, real-time sync with Flink, cost/performance optimization, recommendation engine, and LLM integration with vector databases.
• Served as community public speaker in the tech industry (ACCI, Go Startup program, etc.) and academia (ITB, STIKOM, UGM, and ITATS) across Indonesia, in 30+ events and 2000+ participants.