Yizhao Tan
Data Engineer
Canada
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Top SchoolYizhao Tan is a data engineer with a strong track record of designing and operationalizing scalable data lakes, ELT pipelines, and low-latency streaming systems across startups and mid-size teams. With experience leading migrations away from legacy SQL Server and monolithic databases, he has repeatedly reduced costs and improved timeliness and reliability for analytics and ML use cases. He’s built generalized frameworks to tame tech debt, onboard engineers, and enable downstream consumers with standardized semantic datasets. Comfortable across the stack—from data ingestion and validation to CI/CD and monitoring—Yizhao combines an engineering mindset with a curiosity for system internals rooted in a materials engineering background. Now based in Canada, he currently contributes to production data engineering at Electric Capital after staff-level leadership at StellarAlgo.
1 year of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Materials Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Materials Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
cryptocurrency10
decentralization10
taxonomy10
python10
blockchain10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
atharva-bhatnagar/crypto-ecosystems
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
A taxonomy for open source cryptocurrency, blockchain, and decentralized ecosystems
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
princeibs/crypto-ecosystems
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
A taxonomy for open source cryptocurrency, blockchain, and decentralized ecosystems
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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