Yicheng Sun
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYicheng Sun is a senior software engineer and tech lead with 11 years of experience building microservices and data pipelines for advertising and compliance systems, currently working on search indexing infrastructure for ML/LLM at Apple in San Francisco. He has led Ad Creative Management within the Advertiser Experience org, blending deep technical expertise in distributed services and data engineering with a practical understanding of ad products and compliance constraints. A former IDEO creative technology lead and Illinois Urbana-Champaign CS graduate, he pairs systems-level engineering with a creative bent that informs pragmatic product decisions. Yicheng is expanding into project management and team leadership, bringing a track record of shipping production ETL and ML-related pipelines from internships through senior roles. Notably, his background spans both hands-on infrastructure work and product-facing ad systems, making him adept at translating complex ML and compliance requirements into reliable, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
platformio10
esp3210
arduino10
esp82669
esp-idf9
sdk7
apple-watch6
nodejs6
meteor6
watchkit6
java6
ios6
javascript6
csharp5
intelligent5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yichengsun/Room-Mapping-Vehicle
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 40 pushes in 1 day
yichengsun/forktest
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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