Michael Yee
Senior Data And Software Engineer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Yee is a Senior Data and Software Engineer with nine years focused on building scalable, cost-efficient data platforms and ML-powered services from Ottawa, Canada. He has driven major migrations—reducing data sync costs by over 50% with Airbyte and cutting Snowflake runtime/costs by ~20–25%—while implementing infra-as-code and CI/CD across cloud-native stacks. Michael blends hands-on ML (TensorFlow, Flair NLP) with production engineering, delivering services like receipt extraction, video deduplication, and high-availability screenshot pipelines. His background spans IoT predictive systems, real-time analytics, and automation dating back to lab-level wafer fabrication automation, giving him a strong systems and physics-informed perspective. A pragmatic technologist, he champions data governance, operational excellence, and stakeholder collaboration to turn complex data challenges into reliable products. Check his GitHub to see the experimental projects where he “tortures data to make it tell him anything.”
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Physics (Optics) and a minor in Computer Science, B.Sc., Physics (Optics) and a minor in Computer Science at Carleton UniversityM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Université du Québec à Hull / UQAH
French, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
precompiled8
opencv-contrib8
word-embeddings7
nlp7
pypi6
simple-framework6
natural-language-processing6
sequence-labeling6
machine-learning6
language-processing6
pytorch6
python5
named-entity-recognition5
opencv4
bert4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Michael-Yee/data_science
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Michael-Yee/TensorFlow
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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