Li Yin
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarLi Yin is an AI engineer and founder with 10 years of experience in Mountain View, currently building a search copilot and leading SylphAI where he develops AdalFlow, an open-source library to build and auto-optimize LLM applications. Previously an AI research scientist at Meta/Facebook AI, he led large-scale data collection and annotation efforts and shipped few-shot and open-world object detection work that reached production and CVPR publication. He maintains a widely used open-source algorithm book (python-coding-interview) full of well-documented Jupyter notebooks and regularly writes about AI applications and data structures & algorithms. With strong academic grounding (PhD coursework at UT Arlington with a 4.0 before transitioning to industry), he blends research rigor with product-focused engineering to move models from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
algorithms10
python10
binary-search10
data-structure10
sorting-algorithm10
sorting-algorithms10
lintcode9
jupyter-notebook9
tree7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
liyin2015/python-coding-interview
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
A middle-to-high level open source algorithm book designed with coding interview at heart!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 178 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Li's contributions primarily revolve around implementing and documenting algorithms and data structures using Python. The commits show the creation of Jupyter Notebooks covering topics like binary search, sorting algorithms, and fundamental data structures. This indicates a focus on providing clear, well-documented code examples for learning and practical application within the context of the repository's educational goals.
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SylphAI-Inc/AdalFlow
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
AdalFlow: The library to build & auto-optimize LLM applications.
Contributions:161 reviews, 179 PRs, 495 pushes in 8 months
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