Yang Shi
Co-Founder And CTO at kua.ai
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Shi is a Co-Founder and CTO based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, data-intensive and distributed systems. He has led teams from zero to a dozen engineers to build scalable SaaS platforms and multimodal AI services that process millions of media tasks daily, and currently drives Kua.ai’s AI-first eCommerce content platform. His background spans AWS service development, real-time streaming with Flink, large-scale ETL and data platforms, plus deep expertise in security and trusted computing from early research roles. Comfortable across C++, Scala, Java, Ruby and TypeScript, he blends hands-on engineering with product-level architecture and DevOps practices. Notably, he’s shipped production media and immersive streaming services at Tencent and built autonomous-vehicle-grade real-time pipelines, showing a pattern of turning research-grade systems into reliable, customer-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Sun Yat-sen UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (49)
pipeline9
python8
infrastructure8
amazon8
dataflow7
artifact7
reactive7
data-science7
golang7
observability7
amazon-web-services7
java7
aws7
command-line-interface7
automation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kid7st/18652-nodeChat
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
kid7st/kid7st.github.io
Jan 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 8 years 3 months
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