Alan Yao
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Yao is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable distributed backends, machine learning pipelines, and product-focused systems, currently leading Auth Infrastructure at Airbnb. He architected and integrated Himeji, Airbnb’s Zanzibar-inspired authorization platform, and earlier led a cross-functional effort that reduced account takeovers by ~99% while boosting booking revenue 1.5%. Alan combines deep domain expertise in security, permissions, and fraud prevention with hands-on work across data pipelines, feature engineering, model training/serving, and full-stack defenses. A former CS instructor at UC Berkeley and early intern contributor to high-performance rendering and search systems, he brings both engineering rigor and a knack for teaching complex concepts. Based in California, he pairs large-scale system design with practical delivery, often driving projects that bridge research-quality models and production reliability.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese, English
Github Skills (7)
thai9
prefix9
normalizing9
formatting8
phone-number8
splitting3
data-structures1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alancyao/alancyao.github.io
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 7 months
cs61bl/skeleton
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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