Summary
Tianyou Gu is a Staff Data Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable data infrastructure across high-growth Bay Area organizations. Currently at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, he previously led internal data platform work at Segment, authoring pipelines and tooling with Python, Airflow, Spark, Terraform, and Kubernetes on AWS. His background spans analytics, ML-driven NLP for content classification, and management consulting, giving him a strong blend of product-minded engineering and strategic thinking. Based in Redwood City, he pairs software engineering with a hardware curiosity—an uncommon cross-discipline interest that informs pragmatic, systems-level solutions. A Pomona College graduate in Mathematics and Economics, he excels at turning complex data requirements into reliable, production-grade systems that serve both analytics and operational needs.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics and Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics and Economics at Pomona College