Bo Yang
Senior Director Of Engineering at Salesforce
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolBo Yang is a Senior Director of Engineering based in Palo Alto with nine years in senior leadership roles and over two decades of hands-on engineering experience. He builds and scales high-performing, distributed teams while challenging the status quo to simplify complex platforms—most recently leading multisubstrate security and compliance at Salesforce. Bo has driven measurable business impact by deprecating legacy APIs to reduce company-wide complexity and leading company-scale efforts to improve open source software security posture. He’s an active open-source proponent in globalization tooling, having open-sourced Grammaticus (the Salesforce grammar engine) and presented at consecutive Unicode conferences. His background spans product and operational transformations at IBM and Salesforce, from automating test and deployment pipelines to shipping cloud-ready data modeling solutions. Known for combining engineering rigor with pragmatic leadership, he frequently turns broad platform problems into auditable, scalable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
uyangb01/FirstGitRepo
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
salesforce/grammaticus
Aug 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
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