Bill Yang
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Yang is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with 14 years of experience building full-stack systems and production machine learning at scale. At Meta he leads early-stage ranking model training and inference, drives LLM foundational work from pretraining to distillation and fine-tuning, and champions content understanding and multi-model cotraining for recommendation systems. He blends deep ML research and engineering execution with product-minded design, serving as Team Engineering Excellence Lead to improve delivery and quality across teams. Bill's background includes internships at Facebook and AWS and a strong academic foundation from UT Austin (BS and MS in Computer Science, Turing Scholar), which informs his practical yet research-aware approach. An often-overlooked strength is his end-to-end ownership: he moves models from dataset generation and prompt engineering all the way to ranking and generation in production.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (34)
servo9
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mercurial8
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mozilla8
localization8
internationalization8
gecko8
javascript8
webbrowser8
translation8
intl7
firefox7
react7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
analyst74/aichallenge-ants
Nov 2011 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 5 years 2 months
analyst74/rec-search
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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