Yi He
Research Engineer at Mistral
Beijing, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYi He is a Member of Technical Staff with eight years of industry experience building large-scale data and AI systems, currently applying AI+Data expertise at Perplexity after leading ML and big data platform efforts at Pinterest. Trained as a PhD computational chemist, he brings a scientist’s rigor to production engineering—bridging high-performance simulation work and low-latency trading systems into robust data infrastructure and query-engine contributions. His background includes building backend analytics and Presto-related systems at Facebook, C++ low-latency feed engines, and Java/Python service implementations, giving him deep systems, language, and data-stack fluency. Based in Beijing with international research roots, he combines academic modeling experience with practical engineering to turn complex datasets into actionable insights.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Compuational Chemistry, PhD Compuational Chemistry at The City College of New YorkBachelor Biological Science, Bachelor Biological Science at University of Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (23)
http-service10
cockpit10
middleware9
rhel9
fdo9
frontend8
systemd8
ssh8
python8
ansible8
tcp-server7
automation7
rust7
testing5
network-configuration5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yih-redhat/rhel-edge
Mar 2022 - Jun 2024
RHEL for Edge Downstream CI and Test
Contributions:262 pushes, 92 branches in 2 years 3 months
testingdownstreamrheledge
yih-redhat/test-ci
Oct 2023 - Mar 2026
Contributions:114 PRs, 130 pushes, 74 branches in 2 years 5 months
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