Huan Yu is a software engineer specializing in infrastructure with eight years of experience building and optimizing large-scale systems at Microsoft and previously at ByteDance and Alibaba. He blends a strong software engineering foundation with applied deep learning, having shipped production ML features for user-infrastructure at Alipay and led end-to-end speaker recognition and diarization projects in academic research labs. At Microsoft he focused on engineering fundamentals for SharePoint Online, notably optimizing its build system to improve developer velocity and reliability. Huan’s background spans industry and top research environments, pairing first-class honours computer science training from the University of St Andrews with hands-on deployment experience. He has a pragmatic curiosity—evident in short pivots like evaluating a master’s at NUS before returning to high-impact engineering roles—and a track record of turning ML prototypes into production-ready infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours 3.95/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours 3.95/4.0 at University of St Andrews
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Huan Yu - Software Engineer (Infrastructure) at Microsoft