Summary
Lillyan Pan is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with a decade of experience building and optimizing search ranking systems. A Cornell MEng in Computer Science, she blends strong academic grounding with practical mentorship—she spent several years as a TA for machine learning, NLP, and web programming courses. Her background includes internships at Facebook and Microsoft and hands-on DevOps work at Johnson & Johnson, reflecting fluency across large-scale services, front-end tooling, and cloud infrastructure. Based in the New York City area, she brings a research-informed approach to production problems and a track record of driving measurable improvements in relevance and performance. An attentive collaborator and educator, Lillyan often bridges complex algorithmic ideas with engineering teams to ship reliable, data-driven features.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Cornell University