Gina Yuan
Software Engineer IV at Databricks
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGina Yuan is a Software Engineer IV and PhD candidate in Computer Science based in Mountain View with a decade of experience building scalable systems and research-driven infrastructure. Her background spans industry and academia—from extending MongoDB's Evergreen CI with OpenStack support to building low-latency streaming algorithms at Netflix and researching Rust FFI safety and fault tolerance in high-performance dataflows. At Databricks she continues to bridge systems research and production engineering, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud integrations, and automation. She combines hands-on backend contributions in notable open-source projects with leadership experience directing large-scale competitions at MIT, reflecting a rare mix of rigorous research, practical implementation, and community-facing impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science & Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science & Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Dougherty Valley High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science & Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (9)
go10
openstack10
api10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
testing9
go-testing9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
evergreen-ci/evergreen
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 26 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gina contributed to the cloud provider implementations within the Evergreen CI system, specifically focusing on the OpenStack cloud provider. Their work included implementing an interface to interact with the OpenStack client, creating mock implementations for testing, and establishing authenticated connections to OpenStack endpoints. Furthermore, the user implemented the core host provider functionalities, including the ability to spawn and terminate instances and retrieve host information for OpenStack. These contributions were vital for integrating OpenStack support into the Evergreen CI system.
continuouscontinuous-integrationsystem-integrationmongodbdistributed
stanford-futuredata/offload-annotations
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:295 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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