# Xinyi Y.

> Apache Phoneix PMC at The Apache Software Foundation

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xinyiy

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Present
* Led multiple projects, including development of new internal connectors and frameworks, stateful processing support, migrations, performance benchmarking, state backend evaluations, and remote storage migrations. Designed and built an in-house checkpoint management system and an admin server providing platform metrics, auto-remediation, and other operational capabilities.
* Directed a few OSS Flink upgrades (1.14-> 1.15 -> 1.16 -> 1.18 ->1.20) and managed recurring framework releases, introducing a new release pipeline and comprehensive end-to-end testing. This included full validation of all internal connectors, coverage of in-house and OSS operators, version upgrade testing, and more. Supported the team’s growth from zero to processing over trillion events per day.
* Onboarded nearly all major customers to FlinkSQL across diverse projects, driving new feature adoption, aligning roadmaps, and contributing to a few Million dollars in annual cost savings per use case. Improved FlinkSQL ML workloads with faster, more accurate impressions through system optimizations supporting almost 100TB of state.
* Awarded the FY2025 Productivity Engineer recognition at the Data Infra organization level.(~200 engineers)

### Apache Phoenix PMC Member @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2021 – Present

### Apache Phoenix Committer @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2020 – Present

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
* Led the design and development of high-availability components for distributed systems, while improving observability across core services through better metrics, logging, and monitoring (Hadoop, HBase, Yarn, Zookeeper, Ambari, Phoenix).
* Acted as Scrum Master to drive team productivity by resolving blockers, prioritizing investigations, coordinating new project intake, and running standups, demos, and backlog refinement sessions.

### Member Of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Wish
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### SDE Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
AWS Lambda
Implemented features that enable Scala running on a high-availability compute infrastructure and performs all of the administration of the compute resources, including server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning and automatic scaling, code monitoring and logging.

### MOOC Lab Research Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Helping Prof. Fox analyze educational strategy for Software Engineering students. Implementing the infrastructure with Service-oriented architecture design. Using Ruby on Rails, as well as front-end development (JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS), agile, test-driven development, version control, code-climate, and pivotal tracker.

### Intern @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Software intern. Focused on (long-wave and shortwave) Intelligent Image processing. Used Fourier transform, Mexican Hat, and Derivative Gaussian to build filters, and design fast algorithms to do the feature extraction.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29