Bo Yang
AI Training Infrastructure Engineer at Figure
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBo Yang is an AI Training Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of experience building production-grade ML and systems software from the ground up. He splits his time between research and engineering—maintaining popular open-source projects (3k+ stars) and publishing in deep learning and functional programming while architecting serverless LLM platforms and multi-agent systems in production. At startups and companies like Tacnode, Gradient, and Meta he owned end-to-end LLMOps/MLOps, CI/CD, and observability for elastic, multi-tenant inference and fine-tuning services, even enabling test-time training via Discord integrations. His deep systems and compiler background shows through contributions to major projects such as the Scala compiler, Ammonite, shapeless and HHVM, reflecting expertise in performance, language tooling, and backend reliability. Based in Palo Alto, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into repeatable best practices for novel AI infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him to bridge low-level performance engineering with pragmatic AI architectures that scale.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS (Functional Equivalency Evaluation) Dual Major: Software Engineering and Legal Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS (Functional Equivalency Evaluation) Dual Major: Software Engineering and Legal Studies at Pace UniversityBachelor Of Laws Law, Bachelor Of Laws Law at Southwest University of Political Science and Law
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
3,662reputation
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74answers
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Github Skills (66)
programming-language10
testing10
cmake10
databinding10
generic-programming10
repr10
web-frontend10
javascript10
regular-expression10
uid10
front-end-development10
replit10
compiler10
c-language10
haxe10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
ThoughtWorksInc/Binding.scala
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Reactive data-binding for Scala
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 releases, 1332 commits, 521 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bo appears to be contributing to the development of a reactive data-binding library for Scala. They added features such as a helper for data-binding and the ability to support modifications on an ArrayBuffer. The contributions involve implementing and testing core components of the library, including support for JavaFX Builder and text attributes.
data-bindingfunctional-programmingfxmlxmlscalajs
facebook/hhvm
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
A virtual machine for executing programs written in Hack.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 259 commits, 230 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Bo primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the HHVM virtual machine, which executes Hack code. Their work included fixing build issues related to external dependencies, such as ICU and libelf, and improving the build process for Nix. They also implemented new features and improved existing ones. Furthermore, they worked on the test suite, adding and modifying tests to ensure the stability and correctness of the code.
hacklangphpvirtual-machineprogramshhvm
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