Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California
Airbnb
Software Engineer
Beijing, China
IBM
Software Developer
February 2016 to October 2018
Greater Boston Area
Columbia University in the City of New York
Teaching Assistant
September 2015 to December 2015
Greater New York City Area
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Research Assistant
March 2014 to June 2014
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Xi’an Action Power Electric Co. Ltd.
Engineer Assistant
August 2013 to August 2013
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
The high school affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University
The high school affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University
Columbia University in the City of New York
Master's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.96/4.0
2014 to 2015
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.75/4.0
2010 to 2014
• Collaborate on a team of 12 working on the most challenging program "China Data Localization" in order to close the compliance gap for China Cyber Security Law and Chinese Internet Content Provider obligations to ensure Airbnb's business continuity in China, localizing storage by replicating Aurora/Vitess database from the US region to CN region, and building the... • Collaborate on a team of 12 working on the most challenging program "China Data Localization" in order to close the compliance gap for China Cyber Security Law and Chinese Internet Content Provider obligations to ensure Airbnb's business continuity in China, localizing storage by replicating Aurora/Vitess database from the US region to CN region, and building the cloud infrastructure to localize EC2/Kubernetes services in China• Collaborated with data scientists to improve data quality by building monitors on Airflow, optimizing efficiency of existing pipelines, and developing anomaly detection for business critical metrics• Designed and developed a performant real time log ingestion pipeline (8k QPS) integrated with Kibana using AWS S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Elasticsearch, and Logstash, building monitors and alerts to guarantee system’s availability and efficiency,and composing diagnosis runbook• Built a scalable streaming pipeline using Kinesis, Spark streaming to ingest data to Hive, designing data model and applying offline analysis to data in data warehouse to identify data inconsistencies, fill the gaps and assist to solve problems such as A/B testing experiment assignment imbalance, and user drop-off• Built a reliable monitoring service to automatically collect Airbnb traffic infrastructure data, report health status, and create metrics on Datadog, reducing the time to discover infrastructure issue by 80%• Prepare engineering documentation, conduct technical interviews, mentor and supervise interns and new hires as track lead
What company does Yifan Du work for?
Yifan Du works for Airbnb
What is Yifan Du's role at Airbnb?
Yifan Du is Software Engineer
What industry does Yifan Du work in?
Yifan Du works in the Internet industry.
Who are Yifan Du's colleagues?
Yifan Du's colleagues are Serdar Yildirim, Huimin He, Qing Zhang, Alan Yao, Jorge Simosa, Kalong Wong, Xi Sun, Matt Insler, Xiaofei Hu, and Jack Fan
💼 Past Experience
Education and experience:Yifan Du has a Secondary education from Beijing Normal University and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Chinese University of Nuclear Science and Technology. During his undergraduate education, he also completed his requirements for the Chinese National examination for civil engineers, which he passed in 2012. He also holds a United States visa.
🎓 Education
Yifan Du, educated at Xi’an Jiaotong University and Columbia University, has a Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, with a GPA of 3.96/4.0. Yifan Du has always been interested in the study of Electrical and Electronics engineering and has always been fascinated by technology. After completing her undergraduate program at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Yifan Du worked as an Electronics engineer in a Japanese Japanese corporation for a number of years. Yifan Du began her graduate studies in the United States at Columbia University in 2014, and received her Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a GPA of 3.75/4.0. With her graduate degree, Yifan Du has finally acquired the skills and experience necessary to pursue a career in the field of Electrical and Electronics engineering.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Yifan Du's professional, technical, and interpersonal skills exceed those of most people in this field. Du is extremely self-organized and has a knack for quickly discovering and solving problems. Du is also a fairly good problem-solver, having been able to solve a number of complicated problems in his work career. In addition, Du is highly organized, capable of keeping track of multiple tasks and projects simultaneously. Du also has excellent communication skills, able to easily communicate with different people and organizations.
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