Shawn Yuan
Product Owner at Stealth
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Yuan is a product-oriented technology leader with 7 years of experience delivering large-scale cloud and platform solutions, currently building a multi-gigawatt AI compute cloud in Seattle. He blends hands-on engineering roots—contributing backend code to the Marquez metadata project around owner management and DB migrations—with senior program leadership at Meta, Dell, Amazon and WeWork. His background spans control-plane engineering, authorization systems, and orchestration frameworks where he has driven reliability improvements that eliminated recurring outages and saved massive operational effort. Known for rescuing late, complex programs and compressing multi-year roadmaps into rapid rollouts, he excels at aligning cross-functional stakeholders and scaling teams. Shawn combines a Systems Design Engineering degree with practical experience from embedded and finance systems to cloud-native platforms, reflecting both deep technical fluency and product-first execution. An operator who still ships code, he brings uncommon comfort switching between architecture, execution, and detailed implementation.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Systems Design Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
postgresql10
sql10
api-design10
java10
restful-api10
testing9
database-design9
metadata9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MarquezProject/marquez
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
Collect, aggregate, and visualize a data ecosystem's metadata
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 58 PRs, 149 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on implementing and improving core features related to the owner management functionality within the Marquez metadata service. This included implementing soft deletes for owners, adding GET and DELETE endpoints, and improving related tests. They also worked on database interactions, including the creation of a RowMapper for the Owner entity. Additionally, the user made changes to the API resource, and added data migration scripts.
datavisualizedata-catalogdata-dictionarymetadata
MarquezProject/marquez-web
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Marquez Web UI
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
javascriptreactmarquezweb-ui
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