Yinan Ding
Chief Technology Officer at MindHusk
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYinan Ding is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building high-capacity server platforms and developer-facing frameworks. He progressed through LinkedIn engineering roles where he led server framework migrations, standardized Scala build tooling, and architected a Netty-based HTTP server project that increased capacity by about 40%. As a founder of MindHusk and current CTO at a stealth startup, he blends hands-on systems engineering with product-minded leadership to ship scalable backend infrastructure. Yinan’s background spans presentation infrastructure to horizontal process improvements, reflecting both deep technical craft and organizational influence. Trained at Carnegie Mellon and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical, production-grade delivery. Colleagues describe him as someone who treats software as a medium for creativity—building platforms that let teams and small businesses express imagination at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsMaster of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Japanese, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (27)
jvm10
reactive10
java10
scala10
restful10
web-framework10
playframework10
parseq9
discovery9
api9
rest-api8
scalable8
rest8
jax-rs8
json8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/play-parseq
Aug 2015 - Apr 2020
Play-ParSeq is a Play module which seamlessly integrates ParSeq with Play Framework
Contributions:31 commits, 20 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 years 9 months
play-frameworkparseq
FranklinYinanDing/play-scala-starter-example
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
templateidealscalajsscalascala-play
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