Fan Yang
Chief Product Manager at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Yang is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable systems, currently shaping content-safety and modeling infrastructure for Google Ads in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and has hands-on experience across C/C++, Java, Python, Scala, Spark, databases, and modern ML fine-tuning techniques. At Google he applies prompt engineering, LoRA and few-shot strategies on Gemini models and leads agentic context optimization to improve classifiers. His background includes performance work on big-data query engines at Workday (35% scan speedups via vectorized operators) and backend contributions to Google's QUIC implementation, improving stability and rate-limiting. As a former Graduate Student Instructor he designs DBMS coursework and mentors students, blending research, teaching, and production engineering. He combines rigorous academic training with practical performance and ML deployment skills, often tackling low-level systems and high-level model tuning in the same codebase.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of MichiganBachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
network-protocol10
quic10
architecture8
architectures8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
google/quiche
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 4 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Fan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the QUIC protocol implementation, focusing on stability and feature enhancements. Their work included internal changes and bug fixes. They also worked on deprecating older features. Furthermore, the user implemented rate limiting for client resets and code count improvements to improve logging.
flyaways/quiche
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:435 commits in 2 years
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