Yi 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
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Compuational Chemistry, PhD Compuational Chemistry at The City College of New York
Bachelor Biological Science, Bachelor Biological Science at University of Science and Technology of China
Contributions:95 PRs, 78 pushes, 65 branches in 1 year 3 months
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