Yuchen Yang
Software Engineer at DoorDash
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuchen Yang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends deep academic training (Ph.D. and M.A. from Rice, B.S. from USTC) with hands-on production work at companies like TikTok and DoorDash. He specializes in statistical machine learning, optimization, stochastic processes and combinatorics, and has a track record of taking models and systems from research to production—including launch of TikTok’s reach planner and inventory forecasting across 30+ countries. Proficient in Python and MATLAB with solid C/C++ and SQL skills, he’s built novel clustering and outlier-detection methods and productized a Python package from his Ph.D. research. Comfortable in agile, cross-disciplinary teams, he combines quantitative rigor with practical engineering to deliver reliable ML-driven services at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computational Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computational Mathematics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
shell3
bash3
prompt3
zsh2
react2
player2
javascript1
game-development1
game-engine1
reactor1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Jasonyangftd/fiddles
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 25 pushes in 9 days
Jasonyangftd/kind-enigma
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:29 pushes in 12 days
reactreactorgreenfieldreactjshack-reactor
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