Yan L
Engineering Manager at TikTok
Beijing, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan L is an engineering manager with a decade of experience driving growth and product optimization at scale, currently leading Ads Platform efforts at TikTok. He combines deep expertise in modeling, data analysis, and distributed systems with a hands-on engineering background from Uber, Kwai, and Groupon to boost key metrics through growth hacks and infrastructure improvements. Yan has led large cross-functional teams (100+ at Kwai) and built high-throughput systems—such as the digital red packet distribution that handled extreme peak traffic and an email system scaled to hundreds of thousands daily. He excels at translating ML-driven insights into real-time marketplace and incentive mechanisms that improve engagement and efficiency. Based in Beijing with international education and experience, he pairs strategic growth thinking with practical coding and system design, and believes the long-term payoff comes from disciplined effort today.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hangzhou Foreign Languages SchoolDiplôme d’ingénieur Computer Science, Diplôme d’ingénieur Computer Science at Télécom ParisMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (187)
mariadb-database10
floppy10
storybook10
dialog10
backblaze10
faunadb10
hybrid10
paypal10
javascript10
wechat10
browser10
react-i18next10
laravel10
flysystem10
react-framework10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
iiDestiny/laravel-package-develp-demo
Mar 2017 - May 2024
This is demo
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 13 branches in 7 years 3 months
iiDestiny/flysystem-oss
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022
:floppy_disk: Flysystem adapter for the oss storage.
Contributions:31 releases, 138 commits, 94 PRs in 3 years 4 months
flysystem-adapterflysystemossdiskphp
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