Yan Ren
Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Ren is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, full-stack systems across startups and large tech companies from Montreal. He has shipped production services at scale — from Golang microservices handling 100 billion daily bid requests to TypeScript/GraphQL front-ends and AWS Lambda backends for Amazon’s high-volume hiring systems. Comfortable across cloud platforms and messaging systems (GCP, AWS, Kafka, DynamoDB) and languages (Go, Node.js, TypeScript), he moves between backend performance engineering and user-facing applications. Yan’s career includes roles at Index Exchange, Unity, and Amazon and recent work at a stealth startup, reflecting both deep systems expertise and startup agility. With a McGill engineering background and graduate study in computer science, he blends rigorous engineering fundamentals with practical, production-first sensibilities.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering Co-op Program, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering Co-op Program at McGill University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
c-programming9
data-structures9
coding8
algorithms8
fundamentals8
algorithm8
science8
computer-science7
clrs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yan-ren/comp250
Mar 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
yan-ren/arduino-for-fun
May 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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