Will Yan

Director of Engineering

United States14 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Director of Engineering leading a 50+ engineer organization.
  • Expertise in AI product development and vendor management.
  • Significant contributions to Airbnb's core reservation platform.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with extensive experience in SaaS and Fintech.

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Skills

Other Skills

JavaElasticSearchDynamoDBBig DataRubyAlgorithmsC++CMySQLJavaScriptCassandraTitanHadoopHTMLAJAX

Experience

14 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Zip

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Hybrid

  • Leading and scaling a 50+ engineer organization for Procure-to-Pay (P2P) business line, including P2P core product, Global Payments, Vendor Cards, PO Management, Catalog Management, Risk Insights and more.

Engineering Manager

Apr 2024 – Oct 2024 · 6 mos · Hybrid

  • Manage a group of product teams: Vendor Network, Vendor Management, and Payments Platform

Engineering Manager

Feb 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hybrid

  • Work on AI products + everything vendor related within Zip!

Airbnb

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Mar 2022 – Feb 2023 · 11 mos

  • Core Reservation Platform
  • New Products - Bookings: Gift Card, AirCover and Early Access program

Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2021 – Apr 2022 · 11 mos

  • Sign-up/log-in flows, User Profiles and Account Settings

Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • March 2020 - March 2021 Online Experiences: Engineering DRI for end to end guest experiences through launch and beyond
  • March 2021 - May 2021: Authentication backend implementation for integrated signup on checkout flow
  • 2020 Personalized merchandising: Designed, led and built a new flexible personalized merchandising system, which has been used on Online Experiences, In-real-life experiences, promotion emails and marketing campaign pages
  • 2019H2 Airbnb Adventures: Designed and built Airbnb Adventures (new product) search backend and information hydration framework
  • 2019H1 Airbnb Experiences: Worked on the new Airbnb Experiences explore server-driven platform

Spokeo

Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Backend, Infrastructure, Data Service, ETL, Search, Big Data, AWS

University of southern california

Grader

Sep 2013 – May 2014 · 8 mos · University of Southern California

  • Courses: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Algorithms and Theory of Computing

Lenovo

Server Solution Engineer Intern

Jul 2011 – Jan 2012 · 6 mos · Beijing, China

Beijing engineering research center of electric information technology

Research Assistant

Sep 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Beijing City, China

Education

University of Southern California

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

Northeastern University

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

North China Electric Power University

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) — Computer Science and Technology

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

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