Aijin (Vince) Yuan is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and native/cross-platform mobile apps, currently focusing on recommendation architecture at TikTok in the Greater Seattle area. He has held lead and engineering manager roles at Grab, where he drove ads serving and delivery backends and coordinated ideation through implementation across distributed teams. Proficient across Swift/ObjC, React Native, C++, Java, and Go, Vince pairs hands-on coding with product-minded project management and strong engineering spec discipline. An active open-source contributor, he improved Go's gorp ORM for PostgreSQL compatibility, showing attention to correctness in database interactions. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from Tongji University and has experience across startups, enterprise (Autodesk), and high-scale consumer platforms. Colleagues know him for bridging mobile UX needs with robust backend architecture while keeping releases on track through clear negotiation and progress tracking.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Tongji University
Go Relational Persistence - an ORM-ish library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aijin primarily contributed to the `go-gorp/gorp` project by addressing database-related issues and enhancing the library's compatibility with different database systems, particularly PostgreSQL. Their work involved fixing bugs related to case sensitivity in table and column names, and also quoting column names in specific database contexts. They also refactored tests to use lower case names and added helper functions for quoting table and column names. Their contributions aimed to improve the library's robustness and correctness in interacting with diverse database systems.
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Aijin Yuan - Software Engineer At Recommendation Arch Team