Hi, I’m Yan Shen, an AI engineer and software developer based in Leiden, the Netherlands. I hold a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence from Leiden University and have over four years of professional software development experience. I’m passionate about turning theoretical AI research into reliable, production-ready systems, with a focus on deep learning, reinforcement learning, and scalable data pipelines. My work spans academia and industry—from teaching and mentoring at Leiden to building fintech-grade microservices and enterprise APIs in China. I’ve led migrations of legacy systems to modern architectures, achieved significant throughput gains (e.g., 100x improvements), and transferred RL policies from simulation to the real world, including deploying RL-enabled navigation on a real drone.…Hi, I’m Yan Shen, an AI engineer and software developer based in Leiden, the Netherlands. I hold a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence from Leiden University and have over four years of professional software development experience. I’m passionate about turning theoretical AI research into reliable, production-ready systems, with a focus on deep learning, reinforcement learning, and scalable data pipelines. My work spans academia and industry—from teaching and mentoring at Leiden to building fintech-grade microservices and enterprise APIs in China. I’ve led migrations of legacy systems to modern architectures, achieved significant throughput gains (e.g., 100x improvements), and transferred RL policies from simulation to the real world, including deploying RL-enabled navigation on a real drone.WWWW…