Daiyi Yang
Co-Founder at Empower(YC S23)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaiyi Yang is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building product and infrastructure teams across startups and large tech companies. As Co-Founder of Empower (YC S23) and former engineering lead at Facebook, he has driven cross-functional initiatives spanning Ads, News Feed, Commerce and Avatar, blending hands-on full-stack development with team and project leadership. He scaled and managed onshore and offshore teams as Director of Engineering at Revinate, evolving from a full‑stack individual contributor to leading four engineering teams. Comfortable across frontend, backend, DevOps and data engineering, Daiyi brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach to shipping reliable systems at scale. Based in San Francisco with MS and BE degrees in computer science, he pairs deep technical breadth with entrepreneurial grit and a knack for turning complex requirements into practical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Software Engineering, B.E Software Engineering at Beihang UniversityM.S Computer Science and Engineering, M.S Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
rabbit7
bundle6
php5
rabbitmq5
1c4
cookbook4
symfony4
cassandra4
elasticsearch3
symfony-bundle3
elasticsearch-client3
lucene3
database3
elastica1
analytics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
revinate/rabbitmq-bundle
Mar 2015 - Nov 2017
PHP RabbitMq Bundle for Symfony 1 and 2
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 8 months
php-rabbitmqbundlephpsymfony4symfony
revinate/search-bundle
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
A Symfony2 bundle for interacting with Elasticsearch
Contributions:3 releases, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlesymfony2elasticsearch
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