Steven Yang
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Yang is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience building recommendation and ad prediction systems, currently focused on e-commerce product feeds at TikTok in San Jose. He progressed through multiple ML roles at TikTok since 2021 after internships and research stints that touched reinforcement learning, CTR/CVR modeling for RTB, and wireless performance analytics. Steven combines production ML engineering with research experience from Academia Sinica and ITRI, bringing both practical deployment skills and a grounding in academic RL. He has interned at Microsoft and Appier, implementing backend geospatial services and real-time bidding models, respectively, demonstrating versatility across backend systems and ML pipelines. Educated at National Taiwan University with exchanges at UIUC and an undergrad honors background in EECS, he bridges strong theoretical training with hands-on engineering. Colleagues would note his pattern of moving quickly from prototype research to scalable, productionized ML features.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Honors Program, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Honors Program at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityExchange student 2019 spring Computer Science, Exchange student 2019 spring Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (53)
bioinformatics9
flask8
modeling8
finance8
plotly7
jupyter7
react7
python7
gui-framework6
julia6
spark-streaming6
charting6
azure-cosmos-db6
streaming5
csharp5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
steven95421/CS_project_ML
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:16 commits in 6 months
pythonml-algorithmsmachine-learning
steven95421/KDD_WinnieTheBest
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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