Simon Yu
Technical Lead at MindBridge
Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSimon Yu is a Technical Lead with 12 years' experience building scalable backend systems and analytical pipelines, currently leading Python pipeline scaling at MindBridge. He brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and Java Enterprise while also applying modern data-streaming tools like Apache Flink and machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and scikit-learn to production analytics. Comfortable across relational and NoSQL databases, Simon has a strong track record optimizing performance through query tuning, parallelism, and algorithm refinement. He pairs full‑stack fluency—Angular/React front ends and CI/CD automation—with academic rigor from an MSc in Computer Science, having researched data mining and distributed computing. Pragmatic and hands-on, he has driven migrations (AngularJs→Angular) and complex data migrations, showing both operational ownership and an appetite for bringing research-grade ML into production.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Management Information Systems, General at Dongbei University of Finance and EconomicsMS.c, Computer Science, MS.c, Computer Science at Carleton UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Surrey
Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (31)
war10
jruby9
ruby-application8
angularjs8
apache8
rails8
module-loader8
tomcat8
servlet8
apache-iceberg7
packaging7
python7
ruby-on-rails7
activerecord7
html6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Coding/m.coding.net
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:252 commits in 3 months
simonykq/COMP5704
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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