Engineering leadership
Leading teams through ambiguous product, platform, support, and operational problems.
Engineering Leader · Ottawa, Canada
Jiajian Yang
Engineering leader building SaaS platforms, customer-facing infrastructure, data systems, and AI-native workflows.
Based in Ottawa, Canada. I lead engineering teams working across platform systems, customer engineering, analytics infrastructure, security, and internal tools.
What I do
How I work and where I add value
Platform and data systems
Backend systems, data infrastructure, observability, integrations, and reliability.
AI-assisted operations
Practical use of AI tools and agentic workflows to reduce operational load and improve engineering leverage.
Selected focus areas
Where I spend my time
- SaaS platform engineering
- Customer-facing infrastructure
- Support engineering and operational tooling
- Analytics and data platform modernization
- Security, compliance, and engineering process
- Homelab, networking, and infrastructure experiments
Projects
Selected projects and experiments
Writing
Technical notes and engineering writing
I write about the practical side of building and leading engineering teams.
- Engineering leadership
- Backend and platform architecture
- AI-assisted engineering
- Homelab and infrastructure
- Product building
Contact
Let's talk
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