Summary
Yufei Pan is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Engineering based in the New York City area, with a two-decade track record building search, data, and AI-driven products from Ask.com to Tumblr and fast-growing startups. He has led and scaled cross-functional engineering, product, and data organizations as CTO at NewtonX and Realm, delivering large-scale expert search indexes, B2B research platforms, and an AI-enabled home renovation marketplace. Yufei combines deep expertise in search and recommendation algorithms with practical operational experience shipping consumer and enterprise product suites, including personalization, discovery, and end-to-end workflows. His work blends rapid experimentation, rigorous data analysis, and production-grade ML systems to drive measurable user and revenue growth. Notably, he architected an expert graph indexing over a billion professionals and pioneered AI prototypes for renovation visualization and bid analysis—examples of pairing ambitious engineering with tangible business outcomes. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and mathematics from Rutgers, Zhejiang University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
2 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
ME Computer Science and Engineering, ME Computer Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Rutgers University