Yifan Chen

Yifan Chen is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, specializing in AI infrastructure since 2025. Previously, Yifan worked at Google as a Software Engineer on Vertex AI from 2022 to 2025, and held roles at Oracle as a Senior Member of Technical Staff (2020-2022) and Amazon as a Software Development Engineer (2019-2020). Earlier experience includes a position as a Software Engineer at Dell EMC (2017-2018), focusing on automated testing and web development. Yifan is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer and Information Sciences at Northwestern University, alongside a Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Fudan University.