Hochan Son

Hochan Son is a Research Engineer at UCLA's Trustworthy AI Lab, specializing in Large Language Models and MLOps since February 2025. Prior experience includes serving as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Branch, where significant projects involved database selection and migration to AWS Elasticache, achieving a 30% reduction in costs. At Hallmark Labs, Hochan oversaw the deployment of over 200 MySQL databases and developed ETL pipelines, resulting in annual savings of $100,000. Earlier roles include Database Administrator positions at ADP and Viant Technology, focusing on MySQL database management and performance optimization. Hochan holds a Master of Science in Applied Statistics and Data Science from UCLA and a Certificate in Data Modeling/Warehousing from Stanford University.