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 (21)
napalm10
evolve10
network-analysis10
network-monitoring10
traceroute10
networking10
infrastructure-management10
netmiko10
security10
python-client10
correctness10
network10
network-automation10
juniper10
network-security10
Programming languages (2)
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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