# Yi-Sheng Hsieh

> Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn | Privacy Engineering

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yishenghsieh

I believe both the power of data and the data responsibilities that come with it.

As a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, I apply my expertise in Privacy Engineering to build reliable, operational, and scalable solutions that ensure LinkedIn's data compliance with various regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, and DMA. I have over 8 years of experience in data development, data management and delivering AI/ML applications.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA
Privacy Engineering / Metadata Engineering / User Privacy 

Currently building Privacy Agent platform to enable automation for privacy operations

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Tech lead in the space of Compliance (GDPR, CCPA, DMA...etc) Monitoring and Remediation.

* Built offline metadata infrastructure to enable metadata observability.
* Built reliable, operational and scalable monitoring platform to ensure LinkedIn's data compliance.
* Designed privacy risk evaluation framework to inform prioritization in risk management.

### Software Engineer @ SoopahGenius, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Taipei, Taiwan
Iterated with core product team to enable fast experimentation to find product-user fit.

• Launched internal beta version for an iOS application to help people create story video. Our team built intuitive AI/ML products that help find compelling material from vast flows of visual information.

• Product development, including building CI/CD development pipeline, AWS cloud management and backend API services.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Taiwan AILabs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Taipei, Taiwan
Partnered with product managers, designers and engineering teams to bring AI product to users with continuous development iteration and fast product evolutions.

• Led and designed the backend music engine which integrates generative deep learning models to produce interactive jazz music. Built music evaluation tools to reduce development cycle times by 40%.

• Developed the backend news service that collects popular social media contents and create machine generated news articles via machine learning models. Responsible for crawling, parsing, cover image selection, composing, logging and monitoring. Improved pipeline times by 50% and grow 10x in daily active user.

• Managed Docker, Kubernetes and AWS clusters for building, distributing and deploying applications.

### Software Engineer @ BloomReach
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View
• Developed hadoop-based pipeline for distributed data processing and performed query optimization to transformed merchandiser’s online data to actionable business insights.

• Built full-stack web application to provide customer access to their sites' analytics and make data-informed decisions and live changes of their site. Used React, jQuery and Java Play Framework.

### Software Developer Intern @ Ancestry.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked with the Interactive Image Viewer team that developed an interactive tool to help users view and edit their family historical information from available census records online.

### iOS Developer Intern @ StorySense Computing, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Taipei City, Taiwan
Developed a mobile App - WhatsTheNumber - with more than 800,000 users across 100 countries. This App was powered by artificial intelligence in its search engine to help users find phone numbers for local businesses and call them using text and voice search.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering: System
University of Michigan

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
National Taiwan University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12