Yifan Xie
VP. DevRel at Datafan Ltd
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYifan Xie is a data science and developer-relations leader with 11+ years of experience bridging aerospace research, product-facing ML, and startup development. He began with a doctorate in semantic computing for aerospace and translated that foundation into hands-on ML practice—co-founding Arion.ai and later Datafan Ltd to deliver data science for startups and enterprises. A long-time Kaggle competitor (peaking inside the top 300), he pairs rigorous model-building skills with a knack for communicating technical work to developer and business audiences. Currently VP of DevRel at FLock.io, Yifan has moved between lead data-scientist roles in crypto/NFT analytics and enterprise airframe analytics, showing versatility across domains. Based in Greater Bristol, he blends academic depth with product pragmatism and a track record of turning competition-grade solutions into real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Multimedia Technology, MSc Multimedia Technology at University of BathSICSA Cloud Summer SchoolBSC Computer Science (year 1), BSC Computer Science (year 1) at Oxford Brookes University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
gradient10
dataflow9
portable9
gbm9
xgboost9
java9
scala9
machine-learning9
distributed-systems9
boosting9
scalable9
jupyter-notebook8
python8
dask8
gradient-boosting8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yifanxie/numerdash
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
yet another numerai dashboard
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
yet-anotherreactnumeraidashboard
yifanxie/EDA_Example
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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