# Mingze Yan

> Software Engineer at Doordash

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mingze

I am Mingze(Lily) Yan, a full time software engineer at DoorDash data governance platform team. I am interested in Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, and Data Governance.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Data Mobility Ingestion Team

### Marketing Chair @ NU Blockchain Group
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Evanston, Illinois, United States

### Peer Tutor @ Northwestern University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Evanston, IL
Held 2-hour weekly office hours to answer students’ questions about Database, SQL, Python projects, and homework
Taught weekly tutorial sessions to provide students' more exercise in Python

### Software Engineer Intern @ DoorDash
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Used Kotlin and Typescript to write 5 API endpoints and backend-for-frontend layer for website to access database 
Implemented in React to develop UI pages on internal administration tool for product managers to easily override DashPass plan benefits, saving engineering force and 90% launching time
Collaborated with the team to design and conduct A/B testing of plan benefit ordering on millions of DashPass users

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Washington, United States
Integrated Content Symphony with Content Aggregator using Java to allow providers to easily customize playlists for millions of users in Fire TV
Used TypeScript to write CDK packages to set up AWS CloudWatch alarms for backend services
Implemented Mockito and Jest test frameworks to achieve 100% on unit test coverage
Wrote two detailed design documents by reading documentaries and codebases and presented them in front of the whole team for review

### Student Researcher @ Argonne National Laboratory
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Chicago Area
Conducted independent research on using Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision to estimate flood water depth from images
Applied Python to scrape and collect 700+ image data from online social media
Used Python and Pytorch to achieve face recognition and semantic segmentation of images to assess the water depth 
Made presentations twice a month to update the research progress and summarize the result to 15+ researchers

### Commercial Assistant @ Dong's Cosmetics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Panjin, Liaoning, China
Cooperated with 3 departments to plan and host 20+ live broadcasts with 20,000 followers
Utilized Adobe Photoshop to design advertising posters, created promotional materials, and posted on Wechat moment 
The cosmetics sales were increased by 500% in 5 months

### Social Media Marketing Manager @ Panopath Education and Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Shanghai City, China
- Organized over 10 activities related to studying abroad in an international company, and 3 activities gained more than 1000 participants. 
- Lead a project centered on AP education including designing, marketing, and supervising the products. 
- Interviewed students from 5 different colleges, and wrote attractive posts to introduce these schools.
- Apply online typographic design, social media operations, and marketing skills.

### Market Research Analyst Intern @ DataChem Software, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Westborough, MA, U.S.A
- Conducted thorough market research on how DataChem, a company providing online certification exam training software, could expand their businesses and reach its maximum number of sales on existing products.
- Consulted the company chairman based on the result of market research and provided suggested actions related to increasing the website page ranking on Google.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Science, Economics, Data Science, Segal Design Certificate
Northwestern University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

### Management and Technology Summer Institute
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS)
Yale University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mingze-yan-lily

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Last updated: 2026-03-22