Summary
Yinfei Ru is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and scaling data-driven products from Shenzhen. Currently Head of Engineering at OpenArt AI, he previously led engineering and product architecture at CloudKitchens—owning diner-centric data platforms, loyalty/marketing services, and a geospatial storage/query stack while founding and scaling the Shenzhen R&D center. He has a strong background in analytics and BI from roles at GrowingIO and Mixpanel, where his teams powered core revenue-driving tools and mobile/SDK products. Comfortable from low-level systems to front-end experiences, Yinfei has repeatedly delivered SaaS products for enterprise and SMB markets and managed cross-border hiring and interview programs. He also led mission-critical private cloud deployments and fraud-detection visualization platforms using graph databases, reflecting a knack for marrying infrastructure with domain-specific analytics. Trained with a CS master’s from Syracuse, he blends hands-on engineering craft with strategic operational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree computer science, Master's degree computer science at Syracuse University