Summary
Shiyang Yao is a Full Stack Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable back-end systems and ML-driven tools, currently engineering solutions at Insta360 from Southampton. He combines deep algorithmic and DBMS expertise (InnoDB, Redis) with practical cloud deployment experience and high-concurrency backend design using Spring, RabbitMQ and GCP. Comfortable across the ML stack—TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn—and functional languages like Haskell, he has turned NLP and ML prototypes into production features, including a resume-classification tool that achieved >94% accuracy and sub-second processing. Notable for contributing to large-scale POS backends that supported global market launches, he blends rigorous academic grounding (First Class Honours) with a proven track record of shipping reliable, performant systems.
8 years of coding experience
Dip, dip, Dip, dip at The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University 华南师范大学附属中学
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Information and Computing Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Information and Computing Science, First Class Honours at University of Liverpool
BSc(Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours, BSc(Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours at The University of Southampton
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Information and Computing Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Information and Computing Science, First Class Honours at Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University
Chinese, Chinese