Candice Yu
Principal Product Manager Technical at Amazon
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCandice Yu is a seasoned technical product and program leader with over two decades of IT and engineering experience and eight years in senior product roles at Amazon, currently serving as Principal Product Manager Technical. PMP-certified and experienced as a scrum master, she blends PMBOK discipline with Agile delivery to lead large, distributed teams and manage portfolios and budgets up to $10M. Her background spans full SDLC ownership and hands-on application initiatives across .NET, Java, Oracle and SQL Server, often bridging DevOps and development to drive migrations and complex integrations. Known for steering high-stakes migrations (including large-scale ad platform moves) and coaching teams on Agile adoption, she brings a pragmatic mix of technical fluency and stakeholder diplomacy. A USC-trained engineer, she pairs systems-level thinking with a long track record of operationalizing vendor relationships and improving delivery processes.
8 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at University of Southern California
Github Skills (41)
summarization9
nlp8
transfer-learning8
korean-nlp8
question-answering8
information-retrieval8
squad8
retrieval8
text-generation7
pytorch7
machine-learning7
playing7
semantic7
haystack7
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CandiceYu8/data_science
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
CandiceYu8/haystack
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
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