Yi Yin
Creative Director
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Yin is a creative director and technologist with 10 years of experience blending game design, music composition, and software engineering. After a four-year stint as a software engineer at Google and earlier iOS engineering roles at Facebook and Zoosk, Yi now leads 286studio, where they port and publish games across platforms. Trained at Tsinghua (BEng CS) and UC Santa Cruz (MS Games and Playable Media), they combine rigorous engineering chops with a songwriter’s sensitivity to user experience and sound design. Their career spans founding indie studios with App Store successes to contributing production leadership on AAA and remaster projects, showing both entrepreneurial drive and large-team coordination. Notably, Yi’s background as a published sacred music composer and church accompanist informs a distinctive multimedia approach to game audio and narrative. Based in Austin, they bring a rare mix of product-focused engineering, creative direction, and hands-on studio leadership.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (11)
player8
windows-store8
audio6
ffmpeg6
android5
multimedia5
ios4
windows4
python4
high-performance4
cross-platform3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
286studio/Ballade3
Feb 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch, 43 comments in 7 years 7 months
kthtes/Scores
Aug 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:295 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 years 3 months
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