Yi Chen
Founders Community Builder at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYi Chen is a data scientist and community builder with over a decade of experience bridging research, venture investing, and product analytics. With 3+ years focused on A/B testing, machine learning, and advanced data analysis at leading tech firms, Yi combines deep technical skills in SQL, Python, and MATLAB with hands-on experience translating insights into business and go-to-market decisions. Recent roles span Senior Data Analyst to Associate Principal at Google and founding a founders’ community, reflecting an ability to operate at both individual contributor and ecosystem-building levels. Prior roles in venture and academia (including teaching and research appointments) give Yi a rare fluency in quantitative methods and startup evaluation. Based in Palo Alto, they write "interesting code" on GitHub and are comfortable navigating both research-grade analysis and product-facing data systems. Colleagues know Yi for pairing rigorous experimentation with investor-style judgment to identify high-impact opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD(ABD) Economics, PhD(ABD) Economics at University of California, DavisMaster's degree Economics, Master's degree Economics at Peking UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (85)
json-parser10
memory-efficient10
tee10
chromium10
mmap10
protobuf10
serializer10
java10
serialization10
binary-data10
chrome10
flatbuffers10
modular9
javascript9
hypervisor9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
qazwsxedcrfvtg14/Jtol.Linux
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
qazwsxedcrfvtg14/OS-Proj1
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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