Summary
Yuyang Chen is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager with eight years of experience building large-scale ML and big data systems across Microsoft, Google, and Pinterest, now retired from full-time work. He led teams that delivered production knowledge graphs and compliant data platforms for Microsoft Copilot and Viva, improving pipeline performance by 6x and realizing multi-million dollar infrastructure savings. His hands-on background spans end-to-end ML—data pipelines, model training and serving—alongside expertise in Java, Scala, Python, Go, TensorFlow and distributed system design. Notably, he has driven privacy- and compliance-focused platform design for enterprise AI at Microsoft and shipped consumer-facing ML features for Android messaging at Google. Trained at Fudan University, he combines deep technical breadth with proven leadership in turning petabyte-scale data into reliable, compliant AI products.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Fudan University
Chinese, English