Cary Yang
Software Engineer at Dropbox
Pleasanton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCary Yang is a software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building systems at Dropbox and studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He focuses on graphics and low-level systems architecture and optimization, bringing hands-on performance tuning experience from internships where he rebuilt codebases to be smaller and over 10x faster and architected high-performance data-loading tools for cloud databases. Based in Pleasanton, CA, Cary blends academic rigor with production engineering at scale, comfortable working across databases, performance-critical code, and analytics dashboards. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes maintainability while squeezing out measurable performance gains.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Amador Valley High School
Github Skills (52)
programming-language10
python10
stub9
data-format9
schannel9
typescript9
linter9
serde9
derive9
type-checking8
rust8
protobuf8
delta8
keychain8
code-generation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cyang1/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes in 10 years 3 months
cyang1/rust-native-tls
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
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