Summary
York Tsai is a Principal Software Architect with 13 years of experience designing and shipping large-scale data and ML-driven systems, currently leading R&D to integrate AWS Personalize, OpenSearch, and Step Functions into customer environments. He has built data platforms processing terabytes and serving 10k+ daily queries, led recommendation engines in production, and architected service-oriented systems and devops pipelines across startups and enterprise teams. Skilled in Java, Scala, Python and a broad big-data toolbox (AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, HBase, Redis, Solr), he bridges research, product and engineering to turn ML experiments into reliable APIs. Notably, he’s repeatedly bootstrapped teams and capabilities—QA, data science, tooling and ERP—helping organizations scale from single digits to dozens of engineers while shortening developer onboarding and time-to-production.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese, Japanese