# YANTING LAI

> SDE@AWS Redshift | Distributed Systems | AI Infra | Computer Vision

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

I’m a software engineer with experience building and operating large-scale backend systems in production. I enjoy turning repeated, manual workflows into dependable automation and tooling, and I care about correctness, performance, and making systems easier to run over time. Looking ahead, I’m most interested in distributed systems and the next generation of AI-driven engineering: ML infrastructure, training and data pipelines, and the runtime systems that make model-powered products reliable. I’m also excited by the software–hardware boundary, especially computer vision and robotics, where real-world constraints push for clean system design and strong engineering fundamentals.

## Work Experience
### Software Dev Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2025 – Present | East Palo Alto, California, United States
• Build the first automated Anomaly detection alarm, reduce risk detection from 2 months to 1 week.
• Improved large-scale test migration automation by enhancing the Jenkins-to-Hydra Migration Tool (JMT), raising automated migration success rates from ~20% to 80–90% and enabling self-service test migration across multiple Redshift teams.
• Owned system-level Vacuum system testing by developing and maintaining Kitchen Sink system tests across provisioned and serverless clusters, identifying 30+ defects and catching 7 production-level regressions pre-release that unit tests could not detect.
• Resolved critical stability and release risks by delivering 20+ patch- and release-blocking fixes, including crashes, assertion failures, and concurrency-related bugs, improving patch reliability and operational confidence.
• Supported SEV-2 customer incidents by providing Vacuum-specific debugging, log analysis, and RCA guidance, accelerating triage and reducing operational risk for large production workloads.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | East Palo Alto, California, United States
Redshift vacuum team - providing a sortedness metric for auto vacuum. 
Learn more about AWS vacuum here:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_VACUUM_command.html

### Software Engineer Intern @ S2N Health
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer Fellow @ Formation
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | California, United States
• Selected for a highly competitive Fellowship designed to uplevel software engineering knowledge and skills through individualized curriculum to target growth areas and personalized coaching from industry leading software engineers.
• Completed intensive training to master DSA and practical CS topics through independent projects, pair-programming, and small mentor-led groups.

### Software Engineer @ Peloton Interactive
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Manhattan, New York, United States
Content Cloud Team
• Led the CMS Schedule Page Migration project to a serverless micro-service with React, TypeScript, Python and Postman.
• Optimized backend SQL by replacing comprehensive loops with targeted ID-based queries, reducing load time from 48.2s to 9s.
• Transformed frontend design with Material UI library and React components, wrote unit test in Jest, boosting user engagement by 81.3%.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to ensure all aspects of the project were well-coordinated and executed seamlessly.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle
CS5010 Programming Design Paradigm
CS6620 Cloud Computing
CS5520 Mobile Development
CS5610 Web Development

### Operation Data Analyst - US Market @ EcoFlow
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Raised 12.17M on Kickstarter 2022 and built a Facebook community from 0 to 50,000 users in 3 months.

### Marketing and Operation Analyst @ EASI RENTAL LIMITED
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Melbourne
Increased 120,000 AUD annual revenue by introducing direct debit platform Paypa Plane.

### Founder & CEO @ uglyfruit_china
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Zhejiang University
Received 50,000 Angel investment from NEO space, Alibaba, and new Oriental fund. 
Won 1st place (1/15 ) in National Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Competition in China.

### Musical Actress @ Linyun Theater Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Broadway Musical "Legally Blonde" Musical Actress, 1000+ audience per show in 4 different venues


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Northeastern University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor's degree in International/Global Studies
Zhejiang University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Summer Session in Silicon Valley Innovation Academy
Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Guangzhou Zhixin High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014

### Computer Science
Interview Kickstart
Jan 2023


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yantinglai
- Website: https://calendly.com/laiyanting-neu/30min?month=2023-10

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Last updated: 2026-03-23