Wenyuan Yu
Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba Group
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolWenyuan Yu is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Beijing with nine years of industry experience blending deep research and product engineering across leading tech companies and startups. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh and has applied database theory and systems expertise to roles at Facebook (newsfeed ranking), Audaque, and Google research internships. As co-founder and CEO of 7 Bridges, acquired by Alibaba in 2018, he transitioned into a senior engineering leadership role at Alibaba where he drives large-scale systems work. His background spans academic rigor and entrepreneurial execution, giving him a knack for turning research insights into production-grade architectures. Notably, his career arc reflects repeated intersections of ranking, data systems, and applied research rather than a purely infrastructure or product track.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghBsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at Peking UniversityShandong Experimental High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (51)
pattern-recognition10
graph-algorithms10
random-walk10
gremlin10
gnn10
graph10
facebook10
tun10
c-library10
social-network-analysis10
data-science9
parallel9
analytics9
transparent-proxy9
large-scale9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wenyuanyu/GraphScope
Dec 2020 - Jun 2024
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Contributions:276 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
graph-computingstopscalegraph-neural-networkslarge-scale
wenyuanyu/wenyuanyu2.github.io
May 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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