Long Yao
Principal Software Engineer at Tripadvisor
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLong Yao is a Principal Software Engineer based in Toronto with 13 years of hands-on experience building data platforms, ML infrastructure, and scalable cloud systems across startups and large tech firms. He has led impactful initiatives—from founding Bolt’s Data Platform and driving migration from AWS to GCP to unlocking product and ML capabilities via catalog ingestion—and now shapes architecture and delivery at Tripadvisor. His background spans end-to-end ML systems at Amazon (SageMaker, distributed DNN training), data engineering (Spark, EMR, Glue, Redshift), and productionization of cutting-edge prototypes for government and enterprise customers. Colleagues rely on him for operational excellence and rapid prototyping (a 3-week headless store POC), and he’s known for translating research ideas into deployable solutions and evangelizing best practices across teams.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Sience Biology Minor, Bachelor's Degree Computer Sience Biology Minor at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (29)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
checkout9
amazon9
payment8
mashup7
bolt7
logging7
amazon-sagemaker6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
l2yao/l2yao.github.com
Mar 2015 - Dec 2020
Personal Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 years 9 months
react
l2yao/open-library
Apr 2020 - Aug 2023
中国传统文化图书馆
Contributions:1 release, 25 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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