Bo Yang is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 20+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud platforms, and GenAI/agentic AI products. He has led large engineering and research teams from IBM Research to AWS/Amazon, driving production GenAI solutions for safety, compliance, and DevOps that balance latency, accuracy and operational scale. Bo’s strengths span cloud architecture (Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, AWS), platform engineering, and multi-agent AI systems, with hands-on fluency in Java/Kotlin, Go, Python and TypeScript. He founded and ran an early startup and later helped launch core IBM Cloud services and developer tooling, earning a reputation for turning research into reliable, high-velocity platforms. Notably, he architected AFT’s first production smart assistant and modernized platform stacks to cut development time by 5×, demonstrating both strategic vision and delivery grit. He holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and combines deep academic roots with pragmatic product execution.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Architecture, Ph.D Computer Architecture at Tsinghua University
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Bo Yang - Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)