Alexander Yang
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Yang is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and database engines, currently working on Google's Spanner and B4 WAN SDN in Palo Alto. His career includes contributions to database and distributed systems at Two Sigma and Facebook, SDE II work on Prime Video at Amazon, and low-latency trading systems at Marathon and Citadel, reflecting a strong background in both cloud-scale infrastructure and financial data pipelines. He pairs systems-level C++ and streaming service design experience with analytical chops from statistical market studies and R, enabling pragmatic solutions that balance performance and correctness. Notably, he has repeatedly focused on stateful aggregation and message-processing architectures that decouple ingestion from compute for scalability and observability.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Candidate, EECS, B.S. Candidate, EECS at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS, Networked & Social Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Networked & Social Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (68)
mysql-database10
bash10
websocket10
storage-engine10
unix10
database10
cli10
socket-io10
key-value-store10
nodejs10
tmux10
fzf10
percona10
neovim10
oracle10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alxyang/mysql-5.6
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:102 pushes, 18 branches in 8 months
oracledatabasemysqlfacebook
alxyang/library-java
Jan 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:14 pushes in 6 years
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