# Wenfei Yan

> Software Engineer @ Databricks

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

Passionate about the immense value behind massive amount of data.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie M
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
15-719/18-709 Advanced Cloud Computing (Spring 2021)
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15719/

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
•	Reduced operational burden and streamlined group whitelisting process in Amazon Honeycode by implementing REST APIs in Java that allow team admins to view, add & remove groups.
•	Optimized group data storage for scalability by designing and creating a new DynamoDB table with CloudFormation.
•	Designed data and API migration strategy with no down-time, and implemented an AWS Lambda function triggered by DynamoDB Streams events to guarantee group metadata consistency during migration.

### Data Science Intern, R&D Team, Academic Innovation Office @ University of Michigan
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ann Arbor, MI
•	Conducted a case study on MOOCs that assesses learner forum engagement as it related to course content.
•	Designed new engagement metrics for Teach-Outs to support assessment and iteration
•	Inspected, cleaned, and analyzed unstructured data from various sources in order to create data visualizations to help non-technical audiences gain insight necessary for course design and iteration
•	Analyzed that the course design goal has be achieved by Investigating discussion forum opinion trend with LDA topic analysis and evaluating its relevance to lecture contents by LSA.
•	Published a short paper "Exploring Learner Engagement Patterns in Teach-Outs" in LAK19 as first author.


## Education
### Master of Computational Data Science in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Data Science Engineering
University of Michigan

### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05