Summary
George Yiu is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale, performant systems at Pinterest, where he progressed from software engineer on Homefeed to lead SRE roles focused on reliability, performance, and developer experience. He has deep expertise in real-time recommendation infrastructure, observability, deployment and build systems, and in aligning product and infrastructure teams to solve the right problems. Based in San Francisco and holding an MS and BS from UC Berkeley, he blends hands-on technical ownership with cross-functional leadership. Notably, he led the design of a sub-second realtime event/feature store for Homefeed—an often unseen but critical enabler of Pinterest’s responsive recommendations.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley