Summary
Yeliang Shou is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend and distributed systems, currently contributing to Plaid’s Investments team in New York. A University of Waterloo graduate, he has worked on large-scale platforms at Meta, Bloomberg, and Roblox, blending backend reliability with full-stack pragmatism. He’s comfortable shipping data-driven services and has hands-on experience across brand safety, analytics federation, and economy platforms. Curious about ML and AI, he brings an engineering mindset that looks for scalable, production-ready solutions rather than research proofs of concept. Outside of code, he’s an avid volleyball player, a trait that shows up in his collaborative, team-oriented approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
OSSD High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, OSSD High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Bell High School
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, Japanese, French