David Yin
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David Yin

19 years in engineering & architecture · 13 years leading tech teams · Hangzhou, China
For the past two years, all-in on AI coding: vibe coding, AI-native products and a multi-model harness — shipped solo and rolled out to teams.

David Yin (@davidyinai) — 19 years in software engineering and architecture, 13 years as head of engineering, engineering director and CTO. Led product and engineering orgs of nearly 400 people and built platform, big-data and middle-platform teams from zero. Today he leads R&D at a B2B data-security company, builds a multi-model AI coding harness, and has shipped 8 products on his own (3 iOS apps on the App Store).

19yrsengineering & architecture, since 200713yrstech leadership: head of engineering / director / CTO400peoplelargest product & engineering org led10×user-center capacity after rebuild100M+daily PV spikes, zero downtime8solo products, 3 iOS apps live on the App Store
Day jobData security

Head of R&D at a B2B data-security vendor. Data vaults, encryption, classification & grading and access auditing — delivered from SDK to integrated hardware appliance.

AITwo years in

Vibe coding, AI-native architecture and a self-built multi-model harness. 8 products shipped solo (3 iOS apps on the App Store); even topic selection and distribution run on agent workflows. The same methods are embedded in the team's requirements, coding, review and docs.

In public112 posts / 211 videos

Latest post (Chinese): 如何在普通 Mac 上免费搜照片和文件?用 DigUp,说一句话就能找

01Technical strategy & org building

Turning business strategy into a technical roadmap and shipping it. Built middle-platform, big-data and PMO departments from zero, set up talent ladders and staffed a tech lead for every business line.

02Platform & transaction architecture

Full e-commerce transaction and marketing chains with domain-drawn service boundaries; unified payments, user center & SSO, rate limiting and monitoring as platform foundations; microservice migration, cloud adoption and containerization.

03Data security & enterprise delivery

Data encryption, classification & grading, fine-grained permissions and audit. Delivering to state-owned enterprises and government clients under IT-innovation, MLPS and data-compliance requirements.

04AI engineering & products

Turning AI from a personal tool into the team’s delivery mechanism; a self-built multi-model harness routes models per task; AI-native products taken from idea to launch by one person.

IndustriesAI-native appsB2B data securityGlobal fintechDigital healthNew-retail SaaSInternet financeEd-tech
2025.3 → now
B2B data security · Head of R&D

Owns the data-security and data-vault product lines, running research and development teams with the main product, innovation projects and operations in parallel. Re-partitioned the architecture into access, capability and data layers, built the spec from requirement to release, and wired LLMs into the on-prem data appliance for intelligent retrieval and data governance. Customers are state-owned enterprises and government bodies.

  • 4 releases shipped in a year
  • 100% AI-tool adoption in R&D
  • integration-to-launch cycle cut ~50%
  • two-week iterations, team under 10
2023.9 — 2025.2
Global fintech / digitalization · Technical partner

Technical partner and CTO at a digital-solutions company, owning solution design, vendor selection and project budgets. Then ran product & engineering, acquisition and user operations for an overseas consumer-finance team: established release cadence and a requirement pool, rebuilt the automated telesales flow, and pushed a Southeast-Asia market launch.

  • new-market app live within a month
  • ops processing cycle 5 days → 1 day
  • ~250 interviews in a year
2018.3 — 2023.8
Digital health · Engineering director

Built the platform stack from zero at a leading digital-health platform: unified payments, user center & SSO, encryption, rate limiting, performance monitoring, messaging, files, config center and distributed IDs. Drove the monolith to microservices, led the clinic-SaaS rebuild and the live-streaming middle platform, and stood up performance and API testing to keep quality risk before release.

  • user-center capacity ×10
  • hundreds of millions of daily PV during COVID
  • live platform through 618 / Double-11
2013.4 — 2018.2
New-retail SaaS · Head of engineering

Owned the full transaction and marketing chain: checkout, micro-storefronts, delivery, scan-to-order, coupons, marketing engine and the open platform. Drew domains by product, member, order, payment and coupon; built middle-platform, big-data and PMO departments from zero. Migrated the core framework to microservices, moved the data center to the cloud with containerization and automated ops, and led ISO certification.

  • nearly 400 people in product & engineering
  • 200+ servers run at low cost
  • zero major incidents through hyper-growth
2009.4 — 2013.3
Founder · Legal rep & tech lead

Ran a social-network startup, pivoted to Android in late 2011. Wrote the backend, frontend, ops and database myself — and ran planning, HR and business development too. Later built university academic-administration systems at an ed-tech vendor, including a self-built database migration tool.

  • ran a company end-to-end for 3 years
2007.8 — 2009.3
Financial IT · Java developer

Java backend and web frontend at a financial-IT vendor, porting desktop features to the browser. BSc in Information Management & Information Systems.

Written on the spot
Posts and videos keep coming — in Chinese, plus English videos on the No-Jargon AI channel. When there’s a judgement worth sharing I write it; when it explains well I record it. No monthly quota.
Hands-on first
Opinions grow out of one complete delivery. I don’t write about things I haven’t done.
Show the process
Incidents, rework and bad calls are worth more than success stories.

Who is David Yin?

David Yin (@davidyinai) — 19 years in software engineering and architecture, 13 years as head of engineering, engineering director and CTO. Led product and engineering orgs of nearly 400 people and built platform, big-data and middle-platform teams from zero. Today he leads R&D at a B2B data-security company, builds a multi-model AI coding harness, and has shipped 8 products on his own (3 iOS apps on the App Store).

What has David Yin built on his own?

8 independent products, 3 of them iOS apps live on the App Store: Kaikouba (web app, See the Chinese, say it in English); Save Any Page (Chrome extension, Save any web page as a long image, PDF or Word file in one click); PipiBox (web app, An interactive picture encyclopedia for ages 4–8); ReadShell (CLI tool, A bookshelf in your terminal — read novels on the command line); SiftNow (iOS app, Turn textbooks, notes and screenshots into review audio); FlashFlyer (iOS app, A digital product page for market vendors in 60 seconds); HabitStories (iOS app, A bedtime habit story personalised for your child, every night); Yumetype (web app, Draw your anime personality card in 90 seconds).See the products →

What can you hire David Yin for?

FDE / end-to-end delivery, one-off technical deep-dives, architecture and engineering-org reviews, and landing AI inside an R&D team. Leave a one-line brief, your current stage and the expected window — replies take about 2 working days, in English or Chinese. No ad placements, no “please intro me” requests.Project consulting →

Where can I read or watch his work?

Articles and videos are published first on davidyin.dev (112 articles and 211 videos so far in Chinese; English videos are indexed at davidyin.dev/en/video/) and syndicated to X (@davidyinai), Bilibili (space.bilibili.com/50719386), YouTube (Chinese) (@davidyinai), YouTube (English) (@NoJargonDavid), Douyin (davidyinai), WeChat Channels (不确定体验局), WeChat Official Account (davidyinai), Xiaohongshu (RED) (David的AI大实话).

How do I reach David Yin?

Email hello@davidyin.dev, or DM @davidyinai on X. He replies in English or Chinese.

For consulting: a one-line brief + current stage + expected window. Replies in English or Chinese. No ad placements, no “please intro me” requests.