Limin Yao
Technical Lead at ByteDance
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLimin Yao is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building machine learning and big-data systems for recommendation, ranking, and NLP applications. He has designed offline training frameworks and production services that apply ML models in real time, spanning retrieval, ranking, A/B experimentation, and metric pipelines. His background includes senior engineering roles at ByteDance, Tinder, Affirm, Fast, Wealthfront, and Twitter, giving him deep operational experience with Spark, Airflow, Redshift, and AWS data stores. He pairs research-rooted rigor—PhD-level training and early IR/NLP internships—with product-focused delivery, having shipped features like order-email recommendations and out-of-stock suggestions. Currently leading AI work on unit test generation, he brings a practical bent for automating quality and ML-driven workflows. His GitHub motto hints at a disciplined, thoughtful approach: excellence through diligence and reflection.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstM.E Computer Science, M.E Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityB.E Computer Science, B.E Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Github Skills (7)
proguard9
sms-messages8
apk6
android5
wechat5
nlp4
hotfix1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
YMlion/android-res-parser
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
YMlion/SMSIdentify
Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
分类、批量删除；识别、复制短信验证码
Contributions:13 releases, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
nlpcheckinsms-messages
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