# Yike Ren

> Engineer manager at Snowflake

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

## Work Experience
### Engineering Manager @ Snowflake
Jan 2021 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Houzz
Jan 2016 – Present | Palto Alto, CA
Leading projects in paid user acquisition self-serve flow, ads inventory management, ads pacing and delivery, advertiser insights, sales Intelligent System.
Leading key projects in backend infrastructure.

### Founding Software Engineer @ Particle Media, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, CA
Built several key components for the News Break app. 
News recommendation engine. Channel relevance. Various new growth features.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
Display Ads auto targeting

### Sr. Research Engineer @ Yahoo!
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Yahoo Labs, advertising science

Specialized in ads system development and data mining in both production and prototyping environments. 
Large scale data processing and analyzing for hundreds of terabytes of ad serving data using Hadoop/Pig/Oozie
Designed and developed forecasting/prediction system for industry leading large scale ads systems.

### Sr. Software engineer @ Yahoo!
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Content Integration and Curation Platform

Working on back end and mid tier of building new content platform for dynamically generating content associated with individual topics using Java, PHP, Perl, and MySQL. 
Working on event driven reputation system and a curation system allowing external curators to do curation and get awards on topic pages based on cloud based storage solution.

### Software Engineer @ Yahoo!
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
Yahoo Shopping & Product Search

Built large scale system to process tens of millions of product listings for Yahoo Shopping & Product Search from major partners like amazon.com, ebay, and thousands of smaller merchants.
Built the mid tier system for service and caching purpose including pricing server, cpc server, etc.
Redesigned and built Yahoo Shopping back end and mid tier.

### Software Developer @ AMC Mortgage Services
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007
LAMP related development for a centralized internal system to facilitate works for Developer, System Support, Deployment, QA, and project managers.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in CS
University of Science and Technology of China

### Master's Degree in Computer Science
Kansas State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yike-ren-7282b42

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Last updated: 2026-04-12