Summary
Yilin Wu is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with five years of experience building real-time data pipelines, telemetry, and monitoring systems for Microsoft 365. Skilled in Java, Spring/SpringMVC, SQL/NoSQL, Kafka and Android, she brings full-stack backend expertise to large-scale, production telemetry and big data platforms. Her work spans design, database development and business requirement analysis, with hands-on experience implementing OpenTelemetry and real-time monitoring solutions. A master's graduate from Iowa State University, she pairs academic rigor and teaching experience with practical engineering at enterprise scale. Less obvious: she has moved from early roles in China and industrial software at Hach into cloud-first telemetry work, showing adaptability across domains and tooling.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Iowa State University