Fan Yang
Senior Hardware Engineer at Microsoft
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Yang is a Senior Hardware Engineer with six years of experience building cloud AI and advanced systems at Microsoft after earlier hardware and networking roles at AWS and Cisco. He blends hardware development expertise with backend and performance engineering, contributing significant optimizations to Mono and .NET runtimes used widely across the open-source ecosystem. At Microsoft he works on Cloud AI and advanced systems, and his prior AWS experience focused on networking product development that scaled cloud infrastructure. Fan’s open-source work includes performance fixes and LLVM JIT improvements in high-profile repos like mono/mono and dotnet/runtime, plus benchmarking enhancements for ASP.NET Core. He holds an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from USC and combines low-level systems insight with practical cloud deployment experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who surfaces subtle runtime and alignment issues that materially improve stability and performance.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Southern California
English, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
arcgisruntime10
benchmark10
runtimes10
llvm10
net10
benchmarking10
dotnet10
run-time10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
mono10
performance-optimization10
aot10
compile10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aspnet/Benchmarks
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Benchmarks for ASP.NET Core
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Fan primarily contributed to the `aspnet/benchmarks` repository by adding and modifying features related to Mono runtime support within the ASP.NET Core benchmarking framework. Their work involved adding options for Mono runtime (JIT and LLVM-JIT) and Mono LLVM AOT. They also set default environment options for Mono LLVM-JIT and optimized the code to get mono package based on computer architecture.
dotnetaspnetaspasp-netnet-core
dotnet/runtime
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:799 reviews, 118 commits, 322 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Fan contributed to the .NET runtime repository by fixing and optimizing the Mono runtime. Their work focused on addressing various issues, including removing redundant function calls, adding alignment macros, and refactoring time-related functions. They also addressed several bugs, particularly related to LLVM JIT and unsafe accessor functions, ensuring code stability and efficiency.
dotnetruntimelinuxcsharpxamarin
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