Robert Yi
Co-Founder & CTO at Oxygen
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Yi is a founder and CTO with nine years of experience building data-first products and teams, currently leading Oxygen to reimagine the postmodern data platform. He previously co-founded Hyperquery, a Khosla-backed data notebook acquired by Deepnote, and served as CTO there, blending product leadership with deep technical ownership. Robert's background spans industry and academia—from senior data science roles at Airbnb and Wayfair where he shipped uplift modeling and CUPED innovations, to a PhD in Geophysics at MIT—bringing a rare mix of causal inference expertise and production ML engineering. He’s known for practical open-source impact (authoring pylift) and for translating geophysics-style data thinking into scalable analytics and experimentation systems. Based in Cambridge, MA, he writes on data and systems at think.ryi.me and is open to conversations that bridge research, product, and developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyA.B., Physics, A.B., Physics at Harvard University
French, English
Stackoverflow
1,849reputation
529kreached
13answers
9questions
kubernetes
top-5%
Github Skills (104)
python10
data-warehouse10
workspace10
metadata10
sql10
ai10
cli10
artificial-intelligence10
predict10
warehouse10
information-theory10
data-catalog10
pattern-recognition10
openai10
factorization10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rsyi/whale
May 2020 - Oct 2022
🐳 The stupidly simple CLI workspace for your data warehouse.
Contributions:36 reviews, 404 commits, 163 PRs in 2 years 4 months
warehousedata-discoverysqlworkspacebigquery
rsyi/dato
Jan 2020 - May 2020
A declarative data science ecosystem.
Contributions:1 release, 45 commits, 29 PRs in 4 months
data-analysispythonsciencedata-sciencedeclarative
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