Yan Shi
Senior Data Engineer
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Shi is a Senior Data Engineer with nine years of experience building data systems for progressive organizations, currently leading engineering work at Priorities USA. He specializes in applying data to communications, social justice, labor, and education efforts—translating complex datasets into actionable strategy for advocacy and campaigns. Yan has progressed through roles at EveryAction and AFSCME where he combined digital media experience with data engineering to support large-scale outreach. Comfortable both with hands-on ETL and production pipelines, he prioritizes values-aligned work and open-source collaboration, maintaining a public portfolio and GitHub presence. Based in Rockville, MD, he pairs technical rigor with a background in digital content production and teaching assistance, which helps him communicate insights to nontechnical stakeholders. Outside of work he explores game design and community-driven projects, reflecting a creative bent that informs pragmatic engineering solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at American UniversityHS Diploma Core 40 w/ Academic Honors, HS Diploma Core 40 w/ Academic Honors at Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, & Humanities
Github Skills (10)
starcraft7
minecraft6
discord-bot6
npm5
npm-package5
nodejs5
react4
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
wikipedia1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
oneyanshi/starcraft-bot-zergtastic
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:59 commits, 6 PRs, 50 pushes in 16 days
starcraftminecraftbroodwarbotdiscord-bot
oneyanshi/csc589
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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