Daylen Yang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building production ML and robotics software for autonomous mobility at Waymo and Zoox. Based in San Francisco and trained at UC Berkeley in EECS, he has progressed from individual contributor to senior technical leader driving core systems for self-driving platforms. His background spans computer vision research (including a first-place VQA challenge entry), large-scale product impacts at Yelp and Facebook internships, and hands-on engineering from web and mac apps to fleet-scale autonomy. Known for teaching and coordinating large AI/ML courses at Berkeley, he combines deep research instincts with practical shipping discipline and a knack for turning complex perception models into reliable, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
High School, High School at Bishop O'Dowd High School
Contributions:26 commits, 10 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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Daylen Yang - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Waymo