Summary
Yitao Sun is a software engineer with nine years of experience building production systems across consumer platforms and recommendation engines, currently at Meta after interning there in 2022. He has practical ML and backend experience—implementing collaborative filtering with Golang, Hadoop, and Spark at Shopee—and has shipped mobile features and API modernizations as an iOS engineer. Comfortable working across the stack, Yitao blends data-driven algorithm work with pragmatic engineering to move projects from prototype to production. He thrives on challenging problems and learning new technologies, frequently stepping outside his comfort zone to tackle unfamiliar domains. Based in New York, he brings an interdisciplinary academic background from NUS, USC and Tembusu College that informs a versatile, systems-minded approach to product engineering.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Southern California
University Town College Programme, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General, University Town College Programme, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General at Tembusu College
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese