Yi Yang
Staff Backend Engineer at Coupang
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Yang is a Staff Backend Engineer in Seattle with nine years of industry experience building highly reliable, available, and high-performance backend systems across major tech companies. He has progressed from internships to senior and staff roles at RapidSOS, Amazon, Google, Grab, Hopper, and currently Coupang, bringing deep production experience in large-scale distributed systems. Yi pairs a Master's in Computer Engineering with hands-on expertise shipping resilient services at scale and a focus on operational excellence. His Github motto 跬步千里 ("a journey of a thousand miles begins with small steps") reflects a pragmatic, steady approach to problem solving and continuous improvement. Colleagues know him for bridging high-level architectural thinking with meticulous implementation and for delivering measurable reliability gains in high-throughput environments.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Chengdu No.7 High SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English
Github Skills (22)
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
word2vec10
classification10
similarity10
classifier10
lda10
document-classification10
fasttext10
bengali10
wordnet10
topic-modeling10
sentence-similarity10
tf-idf10
glove10
text-classification9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sherlockyb/stackoverflow-awesome-qa
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
sherlockyb/LeetCode
Mar 2017 - Apr 2022
LeetCode Solutions
Contributions:75 commits, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
javadata-structuresleetcode-solutionsleetcode
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