Yiwen Luo
Senior Software Engineer at Instacart
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYiwen Luo is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building production systems, currently driving backend development at Instacart from Mountain View. With a strong quantitative background—dual degrees from Peking University and a Master's in Biostatistics from Columbia—Yiwen blends data-driven thinking with practical software engineering, a skill honed earlier in roles as a data scientist and biostatistician. Prior work at DiDi and Bristol Myers Squibb reflects experience scaling services in both consumer tech and regulated industries. Known by the informal motto "Go Coder Go!", Yiwen brings a pragmatic, performance-oriented approach to backend problems and a knack for translating statistical insight into reliable, maintainable code.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Experimental Medicine, Bachelor of Science - BS, Experimental Medicine at Peking UniversityMaster's Degree, Biostatistics, Master's Degree, Biostatistics at Columbia University in the City of New York
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nitro-svm/agave
Jun 2024 - Oct 2025
Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
Contributions:40 reviews, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 4 months
blockchain
Yiwen-Gao/micro-storage-platform-monorepo
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 14 days
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