You Yuan
Software Engineering Manager, Instagram GenAI at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYou Yuan is a software engineering manager leading Instagram GenAI at Meta with nine years of experience building high-engagement mobile and messaging products across Messenger, Instagram Direct, and Facebook Stories. A Stanford MS in Electrical Engineering with deep roots in systems and web/mobile stacks, he combines low-level platform experience (Kindle eInk, secure delivery) with full-stack fluency in Java, C/C++, JavaScript, and Ruby. He has a track record of taking features from 0→1 on constrained Android clients and scaling them into cross-app, E2EE-aware experiences. Passionate about applied machine learning and operating systems, he thrives where application development and OS-level engineering intersect. Colleagues describe him as disciplined and autonomous—an engineer who pairs rigorous systems thinking with product-focused execution.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Zhejiang UniversityMaster's degree Electrical Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
machine-learning8
lda4
allennlp4
similarity4
document-classification3
sentence-similarity3
multiclass-classification3
bert2
tf-idf2
sentence-embeddings2
transfer-learning1
conversational-ai1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zingp/pointer-generator-pytorch
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:54 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
zingp/pythonclub
Sep 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:94 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
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