Sky Yin
Founding Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSky Yin is a Founding Data Engineer with 13 years of experience building data platforms and machine learning infrastructure across startups and large tech companies. Based in San Francisco, Sky has led data efforts at Meta (monetization and infrastructure), co-founded a consumer startup in Shanghai, and now helps shape generative AI at Genesis AI while advising and investing in early-stage ventures. Their background spans data science, engineering, and entrepreneurship—from algorithmic trading to technical co-founder roles—giving them a rare blend of product instinct and production-grade systems thinking. Trained informally across physics and computer science (including MIT professional coursework), Sky pairs rigorous analytical roots with a hacker’s appetite for building fast and iterating often. An understated operator, they are comfortable shipping at scale and navigating the messy transition from prototype to platform.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Lifelong learning Computer Science, Lifelong learning Computer Science at Open Source Society UniversityDrop-out Physics, Drop-out Physics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaBachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at Concordia UniversityTackling the Challenges of Big Data, Tackling the Challenges of Big Data at MIT Professional Education
Chinese, English, Shanghainese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (107)
timeseries-database10
postgresql10
python10
deep-learning10
postgresql-extension10
ml10
financial-analysis10
sql10
neural-network10
database10
data-science10
timescaledb10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
time-series10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
piggybox/leetcode
Mar 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:55 pushes in 3 years 10 months
piggybox/NeophyteScala
Oct 2015 - May 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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