Summary
Edwin Yan is a senior analytics leader with eight years of experience building ML-driven insights and data platforms across gaming and semiconductor industries, currently leading Strategic Analytics for BMS at AMD. He blends hands-on data science (TensorFlow, XGBoost, Prophet) with cloud-native engineering on Google Cloud and Snowflake to operationalize models and scale analytics pipelines. His background in finance and actuarial science, with MS degrees from Johns Hopkins in both computer science and finance, gives him a strong quantitative lens for business-facing analytics and risk-aware modeling. Previously he led enterprise analytics at Caesars, translating complex customer and operational data into strategic decisions. Known for pragmatic engineering—comfortable in Java, Python, Node.js, and BI tools—he often bridges the gap between data engineering and product stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience