Yi Pan
Science Manager, Rufus at Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Pan is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building high-performance teams and production-grade AI infrastructure, currently managing Rufus at Amazon. He has deep technical expertise in conversational AI, LLM agents, RAG, SFT and RLHF, and has architected scalable training frameworks for 100B+ dense and MoE models, improving PPO throughput by 5x. Yi has a proven track record of founding engineering organizations from 0-to-1—leading cross-functional teams of 50+ globally to deliver multimodal assistants, dialog management services, and image-relevance improvements that raised CSAT. He combines hands-on optimization of training pipelines on GPU and Trainium clusters with an impact- and data-driven agile culture. Trained originally as an archaeologist (M.A. Anthropology), he brings a rare mix of rigorous research thinking and product-focused engineering to complex AI alignment problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Anthropology (Archaeology), Master of Arts (M.A.) Anthropology (Archaeology) at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Archaeology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Archaeology at Sichuan University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (22)
chatgpt9
llm9
python9
typescript9
generative-ai9
ai9
gemini9
openai9
anthropic9
pydantic8
langchain8
open-source7
sentiment7
dockerfile6
reasoner6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
panyi121/MachineLearning
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
CSE512-14W/a3-luheng-pany5
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 day
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