Yifan Li
Chairman at Pinlan
Shanghai, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Li is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building cloud-native AI systems, currently chairing Pinlan to create an AI-driven CAD cloud platform for AEC and manufacturing. With roots at Carnegie Mellon and Tsinghua, he blends deep technical expertise in distributed systems, mobile and cloud-native ML with hands-on product delivery from startups to enterprise. Previously head of AI at Caicloud and co-founder/CTO roles in health and media startups, he has a track record of rapidly prototyping "AI+" products across finance, energy, and e-commerce. An active open-source contributor, he has extended email sync integrations for diverse Chinese providers in a prominent IMAP/SMTP sync engine, reflecting pragmatic, region-aware engineering. Based in Shanghai, he also advises on AI strategy and internal training, combining technical mentorship with strategic company-building.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
exchange student Electrical and Electronics Engineering, exchange student Electrical and Electronics Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at TsinghuaMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Information Technology - Mobility, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Information Technology - Mobility at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
e-mail10
smtpd10
smtps10
smtp10
python10
integrations10
imap10
emailjs10
apidoc9
api9
database-design4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nylas/sync-engine
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
:incoming_envelope: IMAP/SMTP sync system with modern APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yifan primarily focused on enhancing the application's support for various email providers. They added and refined configurations for several Chinese email services (163, QQ, etc.), including MX server details and authentication settings. Furthermore, the user updated and corrected settings for existing providers like Aliyun and Foxmail, improving domain configurations and folder mappings. These changes demonstrate a focus on expanding and maintaining the platform's integration capabilities with diverse email services.
mailsmtpsyncincomingemail
Eagles2F/MapReduceAndDFS
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:131 commits in 16 days
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