Colin Yang
Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolColin Yang is a Senior Software Engineer and Site Reliability/Production Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable backend systems across observability, data platforms, and security. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has driven mission-critical work at LinkedIn—improving metrics/alerts, data workflow and lake security—and recently joined Robinhood to continue operating large-scale services. He excels at backend API design, CI/CD and performance optimization, demonstrated by contributions to popular paging/on-call tools like Iris and Oncall where he improved message processing, API key management, and calendar integrations. Early work spans JVM bytecode tooling, cache performance testing at Facebook, and productionizing Django apps, reflecting a blend of systems thinking and hands-on engineering. Known for shaving P99 latencies and fixing brittle pipelines, he brings pragmatic reliability engineering that reduces toil and speeds iteration.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
api-rest10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
calendars10
cicd10
api10
rest-api10
sql9
database-design9
automations8
database8
automation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/oncall
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Oncall is a calendar tool designed for scheduling and managing on-call shifts. It can be used as source of dynamic ownership info for paging systems like http://iris.claims.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 31 commits, 23 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `oncall` application, focusing on calendar-related features and API endpoints. They implemented features to hide on-call contact information, created CRUD operations for API keys, and developed a public ical endpoint. The commits also involved filtering calendar events and refining the system's behavior to enhance usability. Their work demonstrates a focus on API development and data retrieval.
oncallownershipcalendarschedulingon-call
linkedin/iris
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Iris is a highly configurable and flexible service for paging and messaging.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on enhancing the application's backend logic and improving the overall system's reliability. Key contributions include refactoring the OWA sync logic, optimizing message processing, and implementing batch operations to increase efficiency. They also addressed CI/CD issues and improved the build process by correcting the CI configuration and fixing the dependencies.
golangconfigurablepagingirisautomation
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