Li-an Yang
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLi-an Yang is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in ML systems and personalization, currently building real-time ranking and recommendation infrastructure at LinkedIn after a decade of experience in high-scale data engineering. He has a strong JVM and streaming background—Apache Beam, Kafka, Redis—and a track record at Yahoo of halving resource usage on ingestion pipelines while enabling automated model serving and continuous deployment for online experiments. Li-an blends practical engineering with product-minded features, having led recommendation reasoning and badge systems that tie ML signals to editorial workflows. His research roots include bioinformatics tooling and scalable analytics at Academia Sinica, where he shipped open-source tools and published work on read-quality assessment. Based in California and a UCSD graduate, he is also a Spotify superfan whose interest in music recommendations informs his obsession with personalized, data-driven user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoExchange Student Information Technology, Exchange Student Information Technology at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (18)
next-generation-sequencing9
genome-assembly9
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
illumina9
genome8
assembler7
pipeline7
spotify6
mopidy6
machine-learning6
deep-learning5
playing5
caffe5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
luke831215/luke831215.github.io
Apr 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 103 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 2 months
luke831215/Voice-Controlled-Streaming-Jukebox
Apr 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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