Lijun Yan
Director, Engineering at Pinterest
Shanghai, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLijun Yan is a Director of Engineering based in Shanghai with 10+ years building and leading high-performing teams to deliver scalable, highly available data and web systems for companies like Pinterest, Expedia, and Disney. He combines deep hands-on expertise in big data pipelines (Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Flink), cloud-native architectures (AWS, containers, microservices) and Java/Spring ecosystems with a proven ability to translate ad-tech and analytics requirements into near-real-time, accuracy-guaranteed production systems. Known for hiring, empowering and progressing talent, he blends technical leadership with people management to create inclusive cultures that drive both business impact and individual growth. Notably, he has led global projects from cloud migrations to petabyte-scale data platforms and real-time conversion attribution for advertisers, demonstrating both architectural depth and operational ownership.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at East China University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
samsung7
notification6
sony6
android-view5
reflect5
android-library4
android4
ios3
kotlin3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lijunyandev/MeetMusic
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
lijunyandev/ScanDemo
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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