Alex Yu
@alexyu1
I build reliable healthcare data platforms and distributed pipelines at scale.
What I'm looking for
At Amazon One Medical, I lead the architecture of a HIPAA-aligned healthcare data platform that unifies EHR/FHIR, laboratory, pharmacy, and scheduling data for approximately 500,000 patients and millions of annual encounters.
I build reusable ingestion and transformation systems with AWS, PySpark, Airflow, and Snowflake. My work reduced lab-partner onboarding from 6–8 weeks to 3–4 weeks, improved clinical terminology coverage, and reduced data latency from 6–8 hours to 45–90 minutes.
I also design patient identity-resolution services, near-real-time pipelines, and operational standards for observability, reconciliation, quarantine, and recovery. Through architecture reviews, production-readiness assessments, and mentoring, I helped reduce pipeline incidents by approximately 60% and MTTR from 90 to 35 minutes.
Previously at Databricks, I built Spark-based ETL platforms, improved reporting performance, reduced AWS compute costs from approximately $45K to $31K monthly, and strengthened production reliability through idempotent writes, validation, and automated alerts.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led the architecture of a HIPAA-aligned healthcare data platform unifying EHR/FHIR, laboratory, pharmacy, and scheduling data for approximately 500,000 patients. Built configuration-driven ingestion frameworks and hybrid batch/streaming pipelines, reducing data latency and pipeline incidents.
Developed batch and micro-batch ETL pipelines transforming raw data into Bronze, Silver, and Gold datasets using Spark and Python. Optimized performance and cost, reducing compute costs and improving pipeline reliability.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2011 - 2014
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin, completed in 2014.
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Software and tools used professionally
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