Nan Yan
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Dublin Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolNan Yan is a Principal Engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently driving architecture and delivery for AWS MemoryDB. He was a founding engineer for MemoryDB, leading its design to achieve industry-leading durability and availability guarantees and later owned multi-region active-active replication features. Nan combines deep distributed-systems expertise with hands-on operational leadership—hundreds of incident responses and customer engagements attest to his reliability under pressure. His background spans backend systems at Baidu for high-volume payment platforms and early research into fault-tolerant consensus, reflecting a long-standing focus on resilient infrastructure. Based in Greater Dublin, he blends formal training in computer science and electrical engineering with practical wireless engineering interests visible on his GitHub. Curious and hardworking by nature, he seeks continuous learning and growth while mentoring large engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor's degree, Optical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Optical Engineering at Beijing Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Purdue University Northwest
Chinese, English
Github Skills (34)
cocoapods10
networking9
tvos9
watchos9
swift8
macos8
refresh8
placeholder8
ios8
objective-c8
uitextview7
plugin7
xcode7
ios-application7
carthage6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NagiYan/engine
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
The Flutter engine
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 6 months
flutterflutter-engine
NagiYan/NGKit
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 17 tags in 1 year 7 months
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