Summary
Yiwei C is a backend engineer based in Taipei with a decade of hands-on experience building production ML-powered search and recommendation systems. He has led and scaled cross-functional teams at ShopBack and Appier, turning research models into low-latency, monitored services and shipping improvements in recall, ranking, personalization and real-time bidding. At LINE and DeepLearning.AI he focused on migrating search and course platforms using LLM-based evaluation and semi-automated tooling, bridging ML research and product engineering. His background includes long-tenured search engineering at Yahoo!, where he applied ML for federated ranking and spam detection while promoting data-driven practices. Known for combining backend, DevOps and ML skills—he often owns the full lifecycle from indexing pipelines and inference runtime to CI/CD and observability. A quietly consistent multiplier, he accelerates model-to-production cycles and builds internal tools that shorten development and validation loops.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor + Master, Computer Science, Bachelor + Master, Computer Science at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese