Bill Yu
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Yu is a software engineer with a decade of experience building simulation and evaluation systems for autonomous vehicles, currently contributing to Waymo’s simulation stack in San Diego. He has alternating tenure between Waymo and Pony.ai, plus prior roles at Google working on Knowledge Graph infrastructure and an O365 Exchange internship at Microsoft, reflecting strong backend and infrastructure chops. Bill’s background in both computer science and electrical & computer engineering from Duke supports a systems-oriented approach to complex, safety-critical software. He consistently moves between research-grade tooling and production engineering, with particular depth in simulation pipelines and evaluation frameworks for self-driving stacks. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-focused, able to translate large-scale data and infrastructure needs into reliable, testable systems. Bill’s cross-company experience in AV autonomy gives him a nuanced perspective on validation, simulation fidelity, and deployment trade-offs that isn’t obvious from titles alone.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke UniversityHigh School Affiliated to Renmin University of China
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (28)
data-structure9
java9
security-framework9
vue9
performance-optimization9
react9
optimization8
browser8
security8
javascript8
algorithms8
graphql6
swift6
graphql-client6
uitableview6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Jayyay/Duke-CSA-iOS
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 123 pushes in 10 months
ioscsadukeios-app
billhanyu/rank-images
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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