# Tsung-Yu Lai

> Software Development Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tsungyu

HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE:

Built scalable data pipelines ground up on AWS EC2 Ubuntu instances under Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, using technology including Spark, Kafka, ZooKeeper, Airflow, Cassandra, Flask/Dash within 3 weeks.

Github Link: https://github.com/gary19941216/bitcoin-fluc-detector


PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:

1. C/C++: 6 years experience
2. Java: 5 years experience
3. Python: 5 years experience
4. BASH: 5 years experience
5. Scala: 4 years experience
6. SQL: 4 years experience
7. HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Node.js: 4 year experience
8. C#, BootStrap: < 1 year experience

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2023 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer @ Pure Storage
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cupertino, California, United States

### Insight Data Engineering Fellow @ Insight Data Science
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Reddit-Trend-Bitcoin

• Analyzed how users' behavior of Reddit cryptocurrency community made impacts on bitcoin price. Produced analytic reports for bitcoin investors to draft a more strategic plan.
• Developed a Scala/Spark batch processing pipeline. Transformed 5TB of JSON data in AWS S3 into 1TB of Parquet data and accelerate Spark SQL query speed from 6 hours to 1.5 hours.
• Ingested real-time events data streams by Kafka coded in Java, processed micro-batch data with Spark Structured Streaming, and stored in Cassandra for web access from Flask/Dash.
• Unified historical and real-time data by running Airflow periodically.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
National Tsing Hua University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tsungyulai

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Last updated: 2026-03-29