Benson Yuan
Software Engineer - Compute Infrastructure at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenson Yuan is a software engineer based in Berkeley with 7 years of experience building online data infrastructure and cloud platforms. He currently contributes to LinkedIn’s real-time analytics stack, working on Apache Pinot where he has improved backend APIs, segment management, backward compatibility, and test coverage for a widely used OLAP datastore. Prior roles at C3.ai and AWS sharpened his expertise in distributed systems, platform reliability, and production engineering. Benson’s background in ML and data science is grounded in hands-on research—ranging from adversarial defenses in computer vision to accelerating MRI reconstruction—which informs his pragmatic approach to ML-driven infrastructure. He pairs strong systems engineering with teaching and mentoring experience from UC Berkeley, signaling effective communication across research and production teams. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors that balance performance, correctness, and long-term maintainability.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
javas10
apache-pinot10
api10
backend10
apidoc10
java10
data-pipelines9
testing9
data-pipeline9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pinot
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Benson primarily contributed to the backend functionality of Apache Pinot, focusing on API development and segment management. Their work included adding a segment lineage list API and improving data consistency in the segment push process. Furthermore, the user addressed backward compatibility issues and refactored code related to segment upload and recommender functionalities. They also worked on performance testing and added test coverage.
apache-pinotolapjava
yuanbenson/pinot
Jun 2022 - Aug 2023
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Contributions:12 reviews, 6 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 1 month
realtimecommonsparquetolapapache
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