Yufan H.

About Yufan H.

Experiences summary:Technology executive with 20+ years of hands on experiences in software development and management in areas of web and e-commerce search and recommendation. Strong interests and extensive working experiences in system reliability, scalability, performance, Web search, E-Commerce search, personalization, product recommendation, big data mining, service usage tracking, user behavior analytics, data driven decision making and test driven development.Built high productive and motivated teams that built large scale distributed systems including search engines, recommendation engines and personalization engines from ground up, with fast pace execution from vision, to prototypes, to production. Acted as product and engineering leader role in all stages of the development.Extensive experiences in managing geo-distributed teams across the world. Extensive experiences in coordinating projects involving cross functional teams within engineering and product organizations.Specialties: Web search engine, E-commerce search engines, highly scalable distributed computing system architecture, large scale data processing system architecture, analytics platform, high performance/availability software development, personalization, product recommendation, software development management, data driven solution development, test driven software development, offshore resource management,Solr,Hadoop,high performance caching system, query classification, information retrieval, search and discovery from structured and unstructured data. Machine learning and statistical analysis.

Experience

1. SVP Engineering

   Menusifu

   Jul 2018 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Leading multi-country engineering teams to solve challenging problems in a restaurant SaaS environment. Tools in our chest including Java, Node.JS, JavaScript, AWS, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Big Data Analytics, personalized recommendations, operational optimization.

Education

• Zhejiang University

  MEng

• Zhejiang University

  BEng

• Keele University

  PhD