Frank Yang
Senior Engineering Manager at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Yang is a Senior Engineering Manager with nine years of experience building data platforms and driving Google Cloud adoption in global healthcare. Based in Toronto, he blends hands-on backend craftsmanship—illustrated by contributions to the prominent google/fhir repo, including tools to translate and generate multi-version FHIR protos—with strategic leadership that shapes domain expertise and organizational direction. He has progressed from software engineer roles into senior management at Google after early experience at Amazon and research at the University of Waterloo, giving him strong foundations in systems engineering and applied research. Known for making complex interoperability problems tractable, he focuses on sustainable platform design that accelerates product teams and compliance-sensitive healthcare workloads.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, chinese (madarin), Chinese
Github Skills (10)
smart-on-fhir10
javas10
hl7-fhir10
java10
protocol-buffers10
health9
ehealth9
medical9
data-transformation9
hl78
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
google/fhir
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
FHIR Protocol Buffers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on the development and maintenance of Java code within the FHIR protocol buffers repository. Their contributions involved creating a translation tool to convert DSTU2 structure definitions to STU3, demonstrating proficiency in data transformation and FHIR version compatibility. They also refactored code to improve the flexibility of proto generation, enabling support for multiple FHIR versions and contributing to the generation of datatype protos for DSTU2. Further contributions involved code improvements related to proto generation, including addressing visibility issues.
protocol-buffersbuffersfhirhealthcarehl7
XiaoYang-Code4Fun-zz/disruptor-cpp
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
cppexchangedisruptoropen-source-projectrewrite
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