Yajun Victor Yan
Senior Software Development Engineer
- Role
- Vice President, Senior Engineer Ii at BlackRock
- Location
- Queens, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yajun Victor Yan
Senior Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade services and multi-tenant SaaS systems in regulated financial environments.Experienced in designing microservice architectures, high-concurrency workflows, and cross-domain integrations that power user-facing products.Strong expertise in Python-based backend development, distributed system reliability, and end-to-end feature ownership from architecture to production.TECHNICAL SKILLS• Languages: Python (expert), SQL, Go, JavaScript (TypeScript)• Platforms & Tools: AWS, Azure, Docker, Spark, Kafka• Databases & Storage: PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Cassandra, Snowflake, Hive• Frameworks & Libraries: REST, gRPC, FastAPI, React, Django, PySpark• AI coding tools: Windsurf, Cursor, Github Copilot, OpenAI
Experience
Vice President, Senior Engineer Ii
Oct 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US
Tech Lead for Client Delivery Experience (CDX) NYC team, driving scalability, flexibility, and reliability of AWT production workflows.Recognized as Python SME within AWT, providing technical leadership to Python developers across Aladdin.Led the design and rollout of AW-AUTO-NJ, a Python-based workflow automation framework for provisioning and lifecycle management of data pipelines. Since 2023, the framework eliminated hours of manual effort and significantly accelerated pipeline provisioning and production orchestrating.
Education
Central South University
Bachelor of Economics, Finance, Math
2009 — 2013
University of Maryland
Finance
2014 — 2016
Skills
- Excel-Vba
- Bloomberg
- Matlab
- Vba
- Financial Modeling
- Quantitative Analytics
- Statistical Arbitrage
- Fixed Income
- Data Analysis
- Trading
- Derivatives
- Microsoft Word
- Team Leadership
- Sql
- Valuation
- Visual Basic for Applications (Vba)
- Quantitative Analysis
- Python
- Sas
- Risk Management
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