[3] Shi previously founded uMentioned, a local social discovery network and was the second machine learning engineer at LendUp.

[7] During his second year, Shi helped develop a software for MLB with Bloomberg Sports in New York City.

[8] In 2016, He joined Georgia Tech's OMSCS and now serves on the advisory board of the College of Computing.

[8][14] In May 2013, LendUp had started its operations in San Francisco[15] and Shi joined as a second machine learning engineer at the company.

[16] Launched in 2016 as Snapcommerce by Hussein Fazal and Shi,[17] Super.com is a savings and earnings application with fintech, rewards and travel use cases.