Yifei Yuan
Senior Software Engineer at Alibaba Cloud
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifei Yuan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bellevue with a decade of experience bridging advanced research and production engineering. After a PhD trajectory at the University of Pennsylvania and research roles (including a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon), he transitioned into industry, contributing to networking and social network problems during internships before building cloud-scale systems at Intentionet and Alibaba Cloud. He brings deep expertise in distributed systems and network-consistent updates, pairing rigorous academic training with practical delivery in large cloud environments. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex theoretical ideas into reliable, maintainable software that operates at scale. Notably, his background suggests a knack for moving research prototypes into production-grade services—a strength that helps teams innovate safely under operational constraints.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at TsinghuaPhd candidate, Computer Science, Phd candidate, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (7)
network10
network-automation10
network-security10
network-analysis10
security10
network-configuration9
python8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alibaba/rela
Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
yifeiyuan/netegg
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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