Summary
Yinan Ji is a software development engineer with eight years of experience building scalable systems at Amazon and now Meta, combining a strong production engineering background with an academic foundation from Columbia (MS Computer Engineering) and RPI (BS Computer and System Engineering). He has moved from early data- and frontend-oriented internships into backend and systems roles, demonstrating comfort with data engineering, APIs, and production services. Based in Seattle, he brings cross-disciplinary experience from web scraping and data-collection pipelines to IoT research and classroom assistance, showing an ability to translate research into practical implementations. Notably, he independently built large-scale job-data collection tooling using Redis, MySQL, and MongoDB during an early internship—an indicator of both initiative and hands-on data ops skill.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and System Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and System Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Columbia University
Chinese, English