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Shaun Yang

@shaunyang

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Senior software engineer building scalable distributed systems and AI/ML pipelines.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can build secure, high-performance distributed systems and production AI/ML pipelines on cloud-native infrastructure. I want to own backend APIs end-to-end, improve reliability and latency, and ship with technical agility.

I’m a software engineer with 7+ years of experience engineering high-throughput distributed systems, AI/ML pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure across enterprise and startup environments. I focus on architecting scalable backend APIs, optimizing full-stack applications, and leading technical initiatives from 0 to 1 with an emphasis on secure, high-performance delivery and long-term reliability.

At SoFi, I engineered Node.js distributed microservices for consumer lending workflows, designed secure analytics dashboards with React and Next.js, and built Kafka/Python credit risk validation pipelines for real-time fraud scoring. Previously at Amazon, I delivered scalable Java services for Hire Search using RESTful APIs, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, and OpenSearch, and improved indexing speed by 28%, while also optimizing UI/UX interfaces with React and TypeScript and delivering low-latency gRPC-based microservices performance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

SoFi

Jan 2026 - Present (6 months)

Engineered distributed microservices and secure financial analytics dashboards to improve throughput and reduce client-side latency. Built asynchronous credit risk validation pipelines and automated containerized deployment workflows using AWS services to improve platform reliability.

Microservices React Next.js Kafka Python Docker Kubernetes AWS Lambda RESTful APIs

Software Engineer II

Amazon

Aug 2022 - May 2026 (3 years 9 months)

Designed and implemented a scalable Java backend for Amazon Hire Search using RESTful APIs and AWS data/services. Built event-driven streaming and low-latency gRPC communication for high-throughput search and microservices reliability.

Java RESTful APIs DynamoDB AWS Lambda Kinesis OpenSearch Pyspark Go React TypeScript gRPC Event Driven Architecture Microservices Distributed Tracking

Software Engineer

DataVisor

Aug 2020 - Aug 2022 (2 years)

Built distributed Kafka-based synchronization and high-throughput alert management systems for real-time fraud-related workflows. Developed stream processing and analytical query pipelines across Kubernetes and AWS to handle very large event volumes.

Kafka Java RESTful APIs Clickhouse MySQL Kubernetes AWS Stream Processing Docker

Machine Learning Intern

TSMC

Jun 2019 - Jul 2019 (1 month)

Implemented predictive analytics pipelines using Python and ML libraries to improve manufacturing yield analysis precision. Optimized large-scale modeling datasets with database optimization scripts to reduce compilation time for testing pipelines.

Python scikit learn Pandas Predictive Analytics Statistical Modeling Database Optimization

Research Assistant

National Chung Hsing University

Jun 2015 - Aug 2017 (2 years 2 months)

Designed software architecture for a context-aware mobile recommendation platform using heterogeneous sensor data from Android devices. Developed NLP-based concept models and recommendation services, including text classification pipelines to reduce data parsing anomalies.

Android Python Natural Language Processing (NLP)