Hui Yang

About Hui Yang

Strong computer science background including data structure, algorithm, database(relational, No-SQL) and distributed system Good understanding of Java, Golang, Scala and SQL Rich experience of designing distributed service and system (micro service architecture with GRPC, CAP theory, real time streaming system with Kafka and Flink, cloud native with Kubernetes in AWS) Good skills to manage a technical engineer team including team building, planning and mentoring

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Grab

   Mar 2021 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Manage the team to build search and recommendation components which make real time, personalized decisions on each of the content requests from Grab massive user base, and serve as the foundation for enhancing user experience that increase the conversion rate(CVR) and revenue. Lead the team to build real time ML features and metrics with streaming SQL and send to the feature store to serve for the ML ranking models Guide the team to build search indexes on ElasticSearch with CDC which serve as the source for the search and recommendation Build observability tools and feedback loop to measure and improve the quality of search results and content data, and provide data-driven insights Grow the team from 3 to 8 people in a year and settle down agile methodology for the team Mentor the team to be highly productive and self-driven

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2009 — 2012

• UC Irvine

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2012 — 2014

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Redis
• Docker
• Xml
• Python
• Apache Spark
• Javascript
• Elasticsearch
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Json
• Multithreading
• Apache Kafka
• Restful Webservices
• Maven
• Spring Boot
• Spring Framework
• Cassandra
• Go
• Mysql
• Spring Mvc
• Distributed Systems
• C
• Apache Storm
• Web Development
• C++
• Java
• Databases