Amanda
Hua
Senior Director, Software Engineering; Women@Apple
Anywhere Real Estate
Amanda Hua, based in the Bay Area, has been working in the high technology industry in Silicon Valley for more than twenty years. She is passionate about new technologies and has more than twenty years of extensive experience in web/mobile development, crypto, blockchain, cloud, AI/ML, payments, identity/security & privacy, ads, risk, imaging technologies to deliver high quality software products and successful business results. She enjoys growing engineering teams and working closely with teams to build and evolve scalable technology platforms from the ground up or migrations from legacy platforms. Amanda has been a technical advisor to a few high growth Silicon Valley startups. She is also the co-Chair of AnitaB.org software engineering committee, and one of the champions of the Apollo GraphQL champions community. An advocate of women in tech, she had served in the leadership committee of Women@Apple and eBay Women in technologies. She is an accomplished ballet dancer.
17 April 2024 10:45 - 11:15
Hardware-software co-design at lower cost
ML/AI accelerator has been rapidly changing the software development lifecycles and it has started changing the hardware development lifecycles. In this talk, Amanda Hua will share a couple of real-world use cases to highlight the best practices that are applicable for both hardware and software design and how we continue iterating ML/AI to speed up and scale the product SDLC at lower cost and drive the success of business.