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 (22)
youtube10
html10
cpp10
ngrok8
localstorage7
proxy-server7
remotestorage7
webserver7
http-server6
proxy6
man-in-the-middle5
ccache5
mitmproxy5
http-proxy5
vpn5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
briantting/cobalt
Apr 2023 - Jul 2026
Cobalt is a lightweight HTML5 application container
Contributions:570 pushes, 112 branches in 3 years 3 months
briantting/cobalt_sandbox
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Cobalt dev workflow sandbox - this repo exists only as a prototype and will get rewritten. Please see http://cobalt.dev
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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