Yilun Huang
SDE at Amazon
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYilun Huang is a software development engineer with 10 years of experience building performant systems, currently at Amazon after a stint as an Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba and work on smartNIC simulation and emulation at Huawei. He holds a BSc in Physics and an MEng in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, bringing a strong analytical foundation to systems and algorithm design. Yilun’s background spans low-level simulation for hardware validation to production-scale software at a hyperscaler, showing comfort across the hardware-software boundary. Based in Old Toronto, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with practical delivery, often translating performance constraints into actionable product requirements. A detail that sets him apart is his cross-domain fluency—able to reason from chip-level tradeoffs up to distributed system behavior.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at University of Toronto
Github Skills (73)
parallel10
python10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
automl10
ray10
streamlit10
backbone10
optimization10
llm-inference10
data-visualization10
gpt10
nlp10
synthetic-data10
data-science10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
modelscope/data-juicer
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Data processing for and with foundation models! 🍎 🍋 🌽 ➡️ ➡️🍸 🍹 🍷
Contributions:4 releases, 294 reviews, 171 PRs in 1 year 8 months
chinesedata-analysisdata-sciencedata-visualizationdataset
HYLcool/cache-simulator
Nov 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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