Summary
Yi Y is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on backend infrastructure, compute systems, and SRE across fast-moving tech companies. After studying computer science at the University of Waterloo with an exchange at EPFL, Yi has delivered platform and caching infrastructure work at Faire, Waabi, Patreon, X, and now Meta. They specialize in building reliable distributed systems, Terraform automation, and low-latency compute stacks that keep large services performant. Yi’s career shows a pattern of short, impact-driven stints in mission-critical infra roles, suggesting a talent for rapid onboarding and tackling thorny production problems. Based in the United States, they combine strong academic foundations with practical experience shipping infrastructure at scale. Colleagues would describe Yi as a pragmatic engineer who thrives on optimizing systems and automating operational toil.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf
Exchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at EPFL
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, French, Spanish, Chinese