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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>Chris Tutor - Experience</title>
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<div class="site-header">
<img src="images/profile/avatar.png" alt="Chris Tutor" class="avatar">
<h1>Chris Tutor</h1>
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<p>
<a href="index.html">About</a> |
<a href="experience.html">Experience</a> |
<a href="projects.html">Projects</a> |
<a href="baking.html">Baking</a>
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<h2>Experience</h2>
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<h3>Software Engineer Intern</h3>
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<h4>Weibo, Sina Corporation</h4>
<p><em>June 2025 – August 2025 — Beijing, China</em></p>
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<img src="images/experience/sina-logo.png" alt="Sina Weibo logo" class="company-logo">
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<p>
I spent the summer in Beijing building an AI-driven auto-reply pipeline in
Python, one of several running in parallel against millions of real Weibo posts.
Most of the work was iteration: prompt and pipeline design went through weekly
review cycles with the project manager and a cohort of fellow interns, and
every round cut down another failure mode.
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The part that stretched me most had nothing to do with code. Each week I
co-authored technical reports in Mandarin, documenting what the pipeline got
wrong and what we changed in response. Writing honestly about failure is hard
enough in your first language.
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<img src="images/experience/sina-office.jpg" alt="Chris standing in the Weibo (Sina) office lobby in Beijing" class="entry-photo">
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<h3>Customer Service Representative</h3>
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<h4>Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo</h4>
<p><em>January 2024 – May 2025 — Palo Alto, CA</em></p>
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<img src="images/experience/jmz-logo.png" alt="Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo logo" class="company-logo">
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I led facility tours and answered whatever visitors threw at me, usually on
the spot and usually with a crowd waiting. Between tours I worked with the
rest of the staff in regular team meetings, aligning on initiatives and
tracking how they were going.
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The job taught me how to stay calm and think on my feet when people are
waiting on an answer. I got comfortable being asked something I hadn't
prepared for and working through it out loud instead of freezing.
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<img src="images/experience/jmz.jpg" alt="Exhibit hall at the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo" class="entry-photo">
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<h3>Kindness Ambassador (Volunteer)</h3>
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<h4>The Palo Alto Magical Bridge Foundation</h4>
<p><em>May 2021 – June 2025 — Palo Alto, CA</em></p>
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<img src="images/experience/magical-bridge-logo.jpg" alt="Magical Bridge Foundation logo" class="company-logo">
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Four years of weekends with Magical Bridge, a foundation that builds
playgrounds and programs where everyone is actually included, not just
accommodated. I started out attending community events and ended up running
them: playground concerts, Super Family Sundays at the Junior Museum, culture
nights, and field days. I also coached in the foundation's tennis program,
running weekly practices and one-on-one sessions.
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The best thing I learned there was how to improvise. When the usual approach
doesn't land, you find a different way in. I use this all the time in my work and studies now.
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<img src="images/experience/magical-bridge.jpg" alt="Chris volunteering at a Magical Bridge Foundation event" class="entry-photo">
<img src="images/experience/tennis.jpg" alt="Chris coaching tennis through the Magical Bridge Foundation" class="entry-photo">
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<a href="index.html">← Previous: About</a> |
Next: <a href="projects.html">Projects →</a>
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© 2026 Chris Tutor | <a href="mailto:ctutor@usc.edu">ctutor@usc.edu</a>
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