Summary
Heng Yuan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance data systems, currently driving platform work at Teradata from Escondido, California. He combines deep C/C++ and Java expertise with scripting (Shell, Perl, Python) and complex data-type experience (XML, geospatial, JSON, arrays, temporal SQL), having designed and implemented a novel MPP geospatial join now patent-pending. Heng has a strong systems and data-background rooted in academic research—he developed 3D imaging analysis tools as a UCLA graduate student and holds a PhD in Computer Science. He’s pragmatic about automation, routinely writing JDBC drivers and debugging/testing tooling to accelerate development and QA. Known for bridging research and production, he has been recognized internally for R&D impact and hackathon innovation. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky distributed-database and complex-type challenges that span low-level performance and higher-level query semantics.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Davis
The University of Arizona
University of California, Los Angeles