Yue Teng
Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent
Shanghai, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYue Teng is a senior software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing and shipping distributed systems and cost-efficient data pipelines across startups and large organizations. Currently at Confluent, Yue previously led performance and cost optimizations—making ETL pipelines 3x faster and ~50% cheaper at Argo AI and re-architecting serverless ETL to cut runtime by 5x and AWS spend by 55% at Vrtigo. Comfortable across the full stack, he has driven migrations to modern data warehouses (Redshift to Snowflake), introduced CI/CD and testing cultures that raised team coverage to ~55%, and built developer tools that boost productivity. As a co-founder he applied engineering to operations—automating short-term rental workflows to achieve 100% occupancy and eliminate most negative reviews—showing a strong product mindset and ROI focus. He holds a math degree from Purdue and a master’s in financial mathematics from the University of Chicago, blending quantitative rigor with pragmatic engineering. Based in Shanghai, Yue combines technical depth with cross-team communication and mentorship to deliver scalable, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at Purdue UniversityMaster's Degree, Financial Mathematics, Master's Degree, Financial Mathematics at The University of Chicago
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
robot4
robotframework2
dialog1
recorder1
lti1
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
hls-stream1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lemontyd214/watermelon
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
lemontyd214/CSDW
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:32 pushes in 3 months
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