Chao Yi
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChao Yi is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building features for Google Photos out of Mountain View. With a strong foundation from Beijing Normal University (BS and MS in Computer Science), he moved from impactful internships at Hulu—where he improved API performance by ~30% and helped port recommendation and profile pages—to long-term product work at Google. He blends front-end and back-end chops, shipping user-facing experiences and optimizing services at scale. A self-described new-tech and food enthusiast, he brings practical curiosity and a user-centric mindset to complex engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Beijing Normal University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
python9
nodejs9
backend7
dispatcher7
frontend6
mongodb6
react6
nextjs5
javascript4
rails3
ruby-on-rails3
ruby2
Github contributions (5)
BNUACM/bnuoj-vjudge
Dec 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 18 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 8 months
virtual-judge
BNUACM/bnuoj-backend
Dec 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 8 months
dispatcherbackendnodejsbackend-servicejudger
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