Kelly Yao
Sr Director Platform Engineering @Iodine Software, Now Part Of Waystar
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WORK HISTORY
Sr Director Platform Engineering @Iodine Software, Now Part Of Waystar
US
Iodine is an enterprise AI company that is championing a radical rethink of how to create value for healthcare professionals, leaders, and their organizations: automating complex clinical tasks, generating insights, and empowering intelligent care- Owned all engineering for core data ingestion, data processing and model inference services capable of processing terabytes of data with high reliability, scalability, and quality- Explored and defined LLM and Agentic AI strategies to enhance and automate business flows- Built a whole new AI/ML platform from scratch, which manages the model life cycle, from model training, model management, feature gathering to model inferencing. Migrated over 100 ML models including the LLM models to the new platform- Led the platform engineering teams building the core Data Processing and ML Engine to support multiple Iodine product lines; Also led the teams creating platform and services to support LLM and Agentic AI solutions- Hired, coached and mentored a world class engineering team capable of solving complex problems in a fast-paced environment- Collaborated with architects, product managers, data science and engineering leadership to define the technical vision and roadmap for core platform services- Nurtured a high-performance engineering culture with focus on shipping the roadmap with focus on quality and performance- Put in place state of the art monitoring and alerting to proactively detect system failures and service degradation in alignment with customer SLAs- Communicated with customers and customer-facing teams as needed to solve problems, present solution designs, and seek feedback.
EDUCATION
San Francisco State University
MS, Computer Science
California State University - East Bay
MBA, Finance
SKILLS
ABOUT KELLY YAO
Seasoned engineering leader turning vision into solutions, creating software product roadmaps and strategies• Strong track record of building AI/ML, data, Cloud service platforms and applications from scratch• Leading engineering teams to own complete software lifecycle, from POC, design, development, deployment, hosting to post production support• Domain expert in AI/ML platform and data engineering solutions, handle data ingestion and processing, feature management, model inferencing and model lifecycle management, create LLM and agentic AI solutions for business use cases• Domain expert in Cloud based enterprise software solution and technologies, utilizing a wide spectrum of technologies including monolith and microservices, event based async architecture, AWS technologies and hosting, multi-tenant database technologies • Proven leadership in building high performance teams• Excellent communication and organizational skills, collaborates with stakeholders and business partners• Managing geographically distributed organization with onsite and offshore teams • Led development operation with agile methodologies
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