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Steven Yin

@stevenyin

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Senior AI software engineer and technical architect building scalable, production-grade AI platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking roles to architect and build AI-first, production systems that improve operational decision-making, with collaborative teams, strong engineering practices, and measurable impact.

I am a Senior AI software engineer and technical architect with over a decade building production-grade AI and web platforms that scale. I combine hands-on full‑stack delivery with platform design to improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.

At Google I led development of AI-powered manufacturing test orchestration and a cloud-code security analysis pipeline, implementing LLM-assisted triage and RAG-backed features that substantially cut manual analysis time and improved first-pass resolution.

My technical breadth spans Python, TypeScript/Node, Angular/React frontends, FastAPI/Django backends, embeddings/RAG, and cloud-native architectures on GCP and AWS. I’ve driven observability, CI/CD improvements, and performance optimizations that reduced alert noise, latency, and lead time to production.

I enjoy mentoring engineers, writing design docs/RFCs, and partnering cross-functionally to turn ambiguous problems into measurable product outcomes. I seek to scale AI-first systems that accelerate operational decision-making.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior AI Software Engineer

Google

Oct 2019 - Jan 2026 (6 years 3 months)

Spearheaded development of AI-powered manufacturing test orchestration and cloud-code security pipelines, cutting triage time 55% and manual handoffs 30% while improving first-pass resolution 44%.

Python TypeScript fastAPI Vertex AI BigQuery Pgvector OpenTelemetry

Senior Software Engineer

Apple

Oct 2018 - Sep 2019 (11 months)

Maintained internal device operations web tools and ETL pipelines, introduced feature flags and canary deploys to reduce rollback incidents 30%, and improved p95 page load by 22%.

React TypeScript Python AWS ECS Redshift Cypress CI CD

Software Developer

Sony

Jun 2015 - Aug 2018 (3 years 2 months)

Shipped commerce and media features, refactored Java services to Node.js microservices, and improved caching and CDN strategies to boost cache hit rates 26% and reduce DB hot spots.

React Redux Node Redis CDN SQL Tuning Docker Jenkins Performance Optimization

Junior Software Engineer

Groupon

Jan 2013 - May 2015 (2 years 4 months)

Contributed to marketplace features and API modernization, revamped REST endpoints and API docs, and helped migrate PHP LAMP services to Node.js to standardize contracts and improve deployability.