Brian Ting
Software Engineer at YouTube
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ting is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building consumer and enterprise systems, currently working on YouTube Living Room (Cobalt) in Mountain View. He has a multidisciplinary background spanning mechanical engineering, molecular biology, and computer science from UCLA, Berkeley and Penn, which informs his pragmatic approach to complex system design. Past roles include production-focused work at SAP improving P2P procurement flows and internships at NVIDIA and Sensel where he built monitoring infrastructure and precision test automation. Comfortable across Java, Spring Boot, Docker, and backend services, he combines deep technical execution with attention to user-facing behavior and reliability. Colleagues would note his knack for reducing feedback loops—whether by halving test runtimes or reworking policy mappings to improve UX consistency.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Molecular and Cell Biology | Minor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Molecular and Cell Biology | Minor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Los AngelesMaster’s Degree, Computer and Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Technology at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (30)
sandbox10
youtube10
cobalt10
cpp10
interception8
proxy-server8
ngrok7
webserver6
http-server6
storage6
tunnel6
proxy6
netflix6
pluggable6
forward-proxy6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
briantting/cobalt_sandbox
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Cobalt dev workflow sandbox - this repo exists only as a prototype and will get rewritten. Please see http://cobalt.dev
Contributions:51 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 9 months
briantting/cobalt
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Cobalt is a lightweight HTML5 application container
Contributions:440 pushes, 75 branches in 1 year 11 months
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