Summary
Yichen Wei is a software engineering manager in Santa Monica with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, big data platforms, and cloud-native architectures at companies including Hulu. A PMP by training and polyglot engineer by practice, he is fluent in Java, Scala, C++, Node.js, Go, Rust, and Python, and has explored languages such as Elixir, Haskell, and Julia. He combines hands-on implementation experience with people leadership—progressing from senior engineer and technical lead roles to managing engineering teams at scale. Enthusiastic about category theory and tiny ML, he bridges theoretical ideas with production ML and streaming systems, and publishes technical writing on his blog. His background in management science and PMP certification underscores a disciplined approach to delivery and cross-functional coordination.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PMP Project Management, PMP Project Management at Sino-edu
Master's Degree Management Science and Engineering, Master's Degree Management Science and Engineering at Renmin University of China
Bachelor's degree Math, Bachelor's degree Math at Northwest University
English, Chinese