Summary
Chao Yang is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable internet services, currently working as Software Engineer II-2 at Indeed in Chiyoda, Japan. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Java and Python with operational rigor from his Senior SRE role at Ant Group and a Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. Previously he led product engineering at Douban, shaping features end-to-end while working with MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and Kafka to support high-traffic systems. His academic background includes a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, reinforcing a strong foundation in algorithms and systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges product and reliability concerns to deliver durable solutions. He quietly balances production-scale engineering with product sensitivity, often surfacing efficiency gains that aren’t obvious from feature metrics alone.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese, Japanese