Yi Shan
Quantitative Developer - Global Macro Future
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Shan is a software engineer based in New York with eight years of hands-on experience and a strong focus on documentation and developer experience. They have contributed significantly to the PaddlePaddle open-source ecosystem—helping improve installation guides, API docs, and user-facing explanations for a widely used industrial deep learning framework. Yi’s strengths lie in translating complex technical details into clear, usable documentation, ensuring smoother onboarding and fewer friction points for practitioners. Comfortable working across code and prose, they bridge engineering and user advocacy to make ML infrastructure more accessible. A detail-oriented collaborator, Yi often surfaces and fixes subtle issues like broken links and formatting that improve long-term project maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Mathematics in Finance, Master of Science - MS Mathematics in Finance at New York UniversityHigh School, High School at Jiangsu Tianyi High SchoolHigh School ALevel Accounting Physics Chemistry Mathematics Further Mathematics AS Level Economics, High School ALevel Accounting Physics Chemistry Mathematics Further Mathematics AS Level Economics at Shenzhen College of International EducationHonours Bachelor of Mathematics Mathematical Finance; Computer Science/Business option; Computational Mathematics, Honours Bachelor of Mathematics Mathematical Finance; Computer Science/Business option; Computational Mathematics at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
paddlepaddle10
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
technical-writing10
deep-learning9
machine-learning6
deeplearning-ai6
python4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PaddlePaddle/docs
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Documentations for PaddlePaddle
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:436 commits, 681 PRs, 515 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Yi's commits primarily focused on the documentation aspect of the PaddlePaddle library. The changes involved installing the documentation, updating the index.rst files, removing and creating rst files, and updating the documentation related to installation guide. They also added and modified various documentation files like index_mobile.rst, api documents, and user guides.
paddlepaddledeep-learningpaddlepaddle-tutorials
PaddlePaddle/Paddle
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning: Machine Learning Framework from Industrial Practice （『飞桨』核心框架，深度学习&机器学习高性能单机、分布式训练和跨平台部署）
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:153 commits, 171 PRs, 148 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Yi primarily contributed to the documentation of the PaddlePaddle framework. Their commits focused on updating and correcting documentation files, including those related to installation, user guides, and API documentation. The changes included fixing typos, improving formatting, correcting internal links, and clarifying explanations within the documentation to enhance user understanding. These updates span across various versions of the documentation.
deep-learningmachine-learningpaddlepaddlescalabilityneural-network
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