Yik Chan
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYik Chan is a Software Development Engineer with 8 years of experience building high-throughput, revenue-critical ad infrastructure and ML infrastructure across companies like Twitter, Amazon Ads, and Owl.co. He has designed and operated large-scale distributed systems in Java and Python, contributing to ads pacing and marketplace services that generated billions in revenue and improved system efficiency and scalability. His background spans SRE, DevOps, and backend engineering—tuning service meshes, running Kafka-based pipelines, and automating operational workflows to boost reliability and resource efficiency. A Python and minimal-Vim enthusiast who enjoys teaching, Yik blends hands-on engineering with clear documentation and knowledge sharing. Based in Old Toronto, he now focuses on reporting pipelines at Amazon Ads, applying both infrastructure and data-driven insights to product decisions. Colleagues know him for taking complex distributed problems and turning them into pragmatic, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Chinese, English
Github Skills (32)
aws10
csi10
amazon10
upstream9
aws-cloud9
development-kit9
amazon-eks9
amazon-ebs9
artifacts9
amazon-web-services9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
kubernetes-node9
kubernetes-deployment9
csi-driver8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chu-yik/terminal-bash
Apr 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
chu-yik/crypto-monitor
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:20 PRs, 61 pushes, 9 branches in 18 days
reactnode-jscryptocurrencynodejsreactjs
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