# Ziying ( Cedar ) Pan

> Engineering at Kindred

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ziying

Software engineer with experience in building web-scale NLP-based machine learning systems and scalable data processing pipelines.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Kindred
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
User activation -- Search

### Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Buiding search products to improve search experience and quality at DoorDash.

### Software Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Text based question answering on Yahoo search (web services, NLP and Deep Learning)
- Data quality improvement on Yahoo Web knowledge graph (data pipeline with Spark and Scala)
- Entity search on Yahoo Search

### Software Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
- Advertising & Data
Built scalable and low latency data pipelines with Storm (Trident) and HBase for attributing ad views/clicks to various types of conversion signals (web beacons, app installs, email receipts, store visits, etc).

### Systems Intern @ State Farm Research & Development Center
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Champaign, IL
Developed the prototype of a data software system to store and analyze sensor data collected from an in-cabin device to detect the risky behavior of drivers.


## Education
### Master of Computer Science in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Mathematics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics
Michigan State University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13