Summary
Lingyan Yin is a software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in high-performance database systems, query optimization, and distributed resource scheduling. Currently at NVIDIA working on GPU databases, she previously advanced serverless and HTAP database capabilities at ByteDance and led query optimization, caching, and federation efforts at Tableau/Salesforce. Her research background includes in-memory databases, RDMA-aware concurrent indexes, and optimizations for modern hardware, bridging academic rigor with production-grade systems engineering. Based in Redmond, she combines deep systems expertise with practical product delivery across cloud and analytics stacks, and is known for bringing low-level performance insights into large-scale query engines.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Engineering at Tianjin University
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The Ohio State University