Annie Ying
Engineering Manager - LLM Custom Models at GitLab
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAnnie Ying is an engineering manager specializing in custom LLM models with two decades of experience at the intersection of AI, NLP, and data science. She has led cross-functional teams to productionize GPT-4-based RAG systems and conversational bots, and previously delivered multi-million-dollar impact at Cisco by building sales ops ML and scalable ML infrastructure. A PhD holder and former IBM/TJ Watson research scientist, she combines deep research pedigree—8 patents and 20+ publications—with hands-on ML engineering across cloud-native stacks (GCP, Kubernetes, MongoDB). Known for shipping socially impactful NLP solutions (WHO-cited suicide-prevention work and a Cisco award) she equally excels at founding robust data pipelines, logging/feedback systems, and novel query engines that translate natural language into scalable database queries. Based in Vancouver, she’s comfortable moving between startup agility and Fortune 500 governance, and often finds high-leverage opportunities by marrying research insights with pragmatic productization.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at McGill University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
sarif7
perl6
semgrep6
openapi5
sast5
linter5
linting5
lint5
api5
api-blueprint5
swagger5
static-analysis5
snippet5
static-code-analysis4
eclipse4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
annieying/Formatter
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 1 year 10 months
lintervscodevscode-extensioncode-formattersnippet
annieying/FormatterEclipseServer
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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