Yanpei Chen
Senior Director, Strategic Insights
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYanpei Chen is a Senior Director leading Products Strategic Insights at Splunk with 14 years of experience bridging product management, data science, and engineering. He runs portfolio-wide analytics that drive GTM motions and operational decisions across 10+ products, influencing roughly 40% of Splunk’s ARR through upsell, cross-sell, and adoption programs. Trained as a PhD engineer from UC Berkeley and formerly a performance engineer at Cloudera, he co-authored early industry-standard benchmarks for big data and machine learning performance. Yanpei is known for turning complex multi-product telemetry into clear positioning, pricing, and roadmap recommendations and for operationalizing metrics used by thousands of employees. Based in Berkeley, he brings a rare blend of research-grade rigor and commercial impact, often advising cross-functional partners from Sales to Legal.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD EECS with MBA minor, PhD EECS with MBA minor at University of California, BerkeleyMelbourne High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (2)
workload4
mapreduce3
Github contributions (1)
SWIMProjectUCB/SWIM
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:3 commits, 1 comment in 4 months
injectorstatisticaluc-berkeleymapreduceamp
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