Summary
Yanan Valencia is a seasoned technology leader specializing in DevOps and data engineering, currently leading the DevOps and Data Engineering team at PatientPoint in Hawthorne, CA. With 12 years of engineering experience and 3 years steering high‑performing data teams, she designs scalable data and ML platforms and drives cross‑functional collaboration to deliver measurable business impact. She has core AWS and ML deployment expertise, having built cloud‑based fraud detection pipelines, automated ML deployment with Jenkins and SageMaker, and achieved a 40% reduction in cloud costs while improving data quality to 98% through Databricks and Grafana. Her career includes leadership roles at TeleSign and TrueCar, where she migrated and optimized data pipelines, shipping batch and streaming data ingestion on AWS. She holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a BE in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, underscoring a strong technical foundation. Outside work, her GitHub bio describes her as a Data Engineer and Gamer, hinting at a hands‑on, performance‑driven mindset.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, 3.45/4.00, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, 3.45/4.00 at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English