Summary
Yiqi Yan is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across cloud and consumer platforms. He has driven storage and streaming infrastructure at AWS Kinesis and contributed to media and content systems at Amazon, Apple, and Uber, currently focusing on reservation trip services. His background blends practical distributed systems engineering with research experience in medical image analysis from his MS at Simon Fraser University. Comfortable shipping at scale, he has rotated between backend infrastructure and media playback teams, showing a knack for latency-sensitive, data-intensive problems. Based in Seattle, he prefers to stay hands-on rather than pursue new opportunities right now. Colleagues would note his transition from academic research to production systems as a distinguishing throughline in his career.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng Communication Engineering, B.Eng Communication Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Simon Fraser University