Summary
Tennison Yu is an Engineering Manager with nine years of experience building scalable data, infrastructure, and platform systems across startups and enterprises. He blends hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, MLOps, and security/compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001) with a pragmatic leadership style that keeps him close to technical work while enabling teams to grow. His background spans analytics, CI/CD, GPU workloads, and automation—helping bridge ML, backend, and platform teams to deliver production-ready pipelines. At Anaconda he led Platform Core efforts around networking, observability, and provisioning, serving as a cross-functional contact for legal and procurement as well as engineers. Trained in data science and engineering (UC Berkeley MIDS, Western University), he brings a research-minded curiosity from earlier lab and ML roles to practical, scalable system design.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information and Data Science (MIDS), Master's degree Information and Data Science (MIDS) at University of California, Berkeley
Masters of Engineering Science: Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, Masters of Engineering Science: Chemical/Biochemical Engineering at Western University
B.Sc. (Hons.): Biochemistry (Biomedical Sciences) Minor: Mathematics and Statistics, B.Sc. (Hons.): Biochemistry (Biomedical Sciences) Minor: Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University
English, Chinese, Chinese, French