Brian Yee
Senior Staff Engineer - Search And Home at Fanatics, Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Yee is a Senior Staff Engineer specializing in search, recommendations, and vector search with a decade of experience building large-scale retrieval and ML-driven discovery systems. He currently leads Search and Home at Fanatics after shaping content discovery at Newsela and scaling search platforms at Wayfair and Drizly, handling traffic at the 100M+ requests-per-day scale. Comfortable across information retrieval, NLP, distributed systems, and production ML, he focuses on turning complex relevance problems into robust, high-throughput services. His background in mathematics informs a rigorous, metrics-driven approach to ranking and recommendation design. Based in Old Toronto, he also consults on machine learning, bringing both hands-on engineering and product-minded system architecture to search-driven experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (2)
markov2
dataframes1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Brian-Yee/ScriptTaste
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
ScriptTaste is small CLI to visually evaluate someone's taste in shows from MyAnimeList.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
evaluatemyanimelistcli
Brian-Yee/Py-Rep-Tile
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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