Allen Yan
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Yan is a Staff Software Engineer in Palo Alto with 15+ years of deep expertise in database research and distributed systems, currently leading Distributed Execution for Google’s F1 Query and chairing its Architecture Working Group. He blends rigorous academic training (Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science, 3.99/4.00) with hands-on engineering, driving performance, system health, and cross-team technical coordination at scale. His track record includes multiple company-wide awards for performance and health improvements and innovation prizes, reflecting measurable impact on large production systems. Allen also contributes to high-profile open-source ML work such as tensorflow/models, where he improved data loading and task pipelines for the YouTube-8M video classification project—showing a breadth that spans both databases and ML infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer and Information Science, 3.99 / 4.00, Ph.D, Computer and Information Science, 3.99 / 4.00 at University of PennsylvaniaNo. 2 High School Attached to East China Normal UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (6)
computer-vision10
machine-learning10
tensorflow10
data-processing9
python9
video-processing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/models
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Models and examples built with TensorFlow
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 26 commits, 8 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Allen primarily contributed internal changes to the `tensorflow/models` repository, focusing on the `official/projects/yt8m` directory. Their commits involve modifications to `yt8m_task.py` and `yt8m_input.py`, suggesting work on data loading and task definition for the YouTube-8M video classification project. These changes include adjustments to frame sampling and label processing, indicating involvement in the core components of an ML pipeline.
deep-learningtensorflow
uta-smile/RetroXpert
Oct 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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