Wai Y
Principal Engineer at Zendesk
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolWai Y is a Principal Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with over a decade of hands-on experience building large-scale data platforms and ML infrastructure at Zendesk. He has led cross-functional groups and individual teams to design and deliver production data ingestion, transformation, and model-serving systems using technologies like Kafka, Spark/EMR, Snowflake, Go, Java and AWS. His work spans from launching core customer-profile and Events features to architecting a bulk ML model-building platform that scaled to tens of thousands of models daily and earned a patent. Comfortable toggling between strategic group leadership and deep technical contribution, he’s known for driving cloud migrations, data locality tooling and operational ML in high-throughput environments. Trained as a computer vision PhD, he brings research rigor to practical engineering trade-offs and a demonstrated record of presenting and publishing technical learnings.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B Eng (Hons) Electronics engineering, B Eng (Hons) Electronics engineering at Multimedia UniversityPhD in Computer Vision, PhD in Computer Vision at RMIT University
Github Skills (58)
python10
machine-learning-models10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
neural-network10
cpp10
plugin-architecture9
architecture9
data-science9
ml9
continuous-delivery9
monitors9
producer9
deep-neural-networks9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
waichee/kafka-example
Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
Simple example for reading and writing into Kafka
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
kafkasinkapache-kafka
waichee/serving
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 32 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
servingmachine-learningperformancehigh-performancemachine-learning-models
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