Yandong Liu
CTO @ Strava
CTO @ Strava
Strava is the home of your active life. We strive to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. We are building infrastructure and products with data and machine learning to make our products more reliable, scalable, and personalized. Lots of exciting work ahead of us!
Facts about Strava:
45M athletes in 195 countries. 82% are international.
Adding over 1 million new users every 30 days.
2.5B activities. 20M activities uploaded weekly.
42% London Marathons are on Strava.
Engineering consists of Infra, Platform, Geo, Data, ML, Productivity, Trust & Safety, and Product Engineering. Tackling many exciting challenges (Geo matching, Personalized Home Feed, Content Discovery, Adaptive Training, etc) with unique datasets that only Strava possesses.
Currently hiring for Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and many other roles! Please apply at https://boards.greenhouse.io/strava !
About myself:
Studied in CS/PhD program at Carnegie Mellon University
Published 20 academic papers in ML/Data Mining/NLP with 1300 citations
Before joining Strava as its CTO, I was VP Engineering at NetEase managing teams of 300 to bring the most personalized experience to NetEase News app (25M daily active users)
Got more questions? Email me at askjupiter@gmail.com