Summary
Yan Yu is a Berkeley CS & Data Science student and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of practical experience building production data pipelines, backend systems, and robotics software. He has led partnership and sponsorship efforts as General Manager at BIA at Berkeley while delivering engineering impact at companies like DiDi—where he processed 50k+ LiDAR PCAPs and improved perception validation—and Nextier, where he cut crypto data ingestion time from 8 hours to 30 seconds. His work blends systems engineering (Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Redis), data cleaning and anomaly detection, and embedded/IoT tooling for CAN-bus replay and offline testing. He has published research on SfM disambiguation in a top photogrammetry journal and open-sourced the implementation, showing a bridge between academic rigor and production engineering. Comfortable in cross-functional roles, he combines sponsor relationship management and technical authorship of system design docs to align teams and drive measurable results.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science & Data Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science & Data Science at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science & Data Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science & Data Science at UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Engineering Summer Academy at Penn, 4.0, Engineering Summer Academy at Penn, 4.0 at University of Pennsylvania