Yi Chen
Head of Storage at Two Sigma
- Role
- Senior Vice President - Head of Storage at Two Sigma
- Location
- Scarsdale, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yi Chen
A visionary, adaptive, and people-first engineering lead with extensive experience in the infrastructure platform domain and a track record of building high performance teams. Proven expertise in building and evolving hyper-scale distributed systems, as well as architecting and integrating cloud and hybrid-cloud data storage solutions. Skilled in cost optimization, operational excellence, and organizational development. Adept at defining strategic roadmap, fostering cross-functional collaboration, scaling while simplifying platform to meet complex business requirements.
Experience
Senior Vice President - Head of Storage
Jan 2022 — Present · NY, US
Managed an organization of 20~30 engineers. Driving strategy, cross-organizational partnerships, external vendor relations, product roadmaps, and critical projects execution- Led a multi-years initiative to expand Two Sigma storage platform into a multi-cloud architecture, achieving a 400% scale increase in data footprint and I/O throughput, empowering hundreds of modeling use cases firmwide- Modernized the core trading system’s storage backend, achieving a 10x reduction in I/O latency and significant capacity improvements- Championed the adoption of industrial leading technologies (e.g, Apache Iceberg, Lake-house architecture) to revamp the firm’s time-series data access stack- Responsible for the storage platform budget, realizing multi-million dollars annual cost savings through implementing storage data best practices and workload data locality- Responsible for the organization’s hiring and staffing. Built a balanced leadership pipeline by growing line managers, technical leaders, and engineers across all levels- Maintained high operational standards and user satisfaction for ~10 storage-related products
Education
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Master, Electrical Engineering
2005 — 2008
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bachelor, Information and automation Engineering
2001 — 2005
Skills
- Storage
- Device Drivers
- Kernel
- Linux Kernel
- Linux
- Cloud Storage
- Object Oriented Design
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Software Development
- Python
- C
- Nfs
- Perl
- Embedded Systems
- Unix
- File Systems
- Hadoop
- Cloud Computing
- Operating Systems
- C++
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