Hong Yuan
Engineering Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHong Yuan is an engineering leader and hands-on software architect with 10+ years building large-scale, low-latency distributed backends for cloud and mobile-first applications. Currently leading work on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL at AWS, he brings deep expertise in event-driven, multi-tenant SaaS/PaaS systems, push notification and conversational commerce platforms. Previously he founded and scaled engineering efforts at GoDaddy and Groupon—shipping mobile social channels, subscription fulfillment microservices, and globally distributed push infrastructures. Comfortable in both open-source and commercial stacks (LAMP, NoSQL/NewSQL, CI/CD), he consistently balances high availability and throughput with data consistency and operational simplicity. He combines a rare academic background in history and art history with an MS in computer science, which informs a pragmatic yet creative approach to system design. Known for prototyping fast and driving cross-team innovation, he excels at turning early-stage ideas into production-grade services.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Art History, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Art History at Duke UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), History & Archaeology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History & Archaeology at Peking UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (25)
fluid10
sem10
spectral10
cluster-computing9
hpc9
code-generation9
mechanics9
hydrodynamics8
computational-fluid-dynamics8
snl-applications8
gpu8
exascale8
computational-physics8
fluid-dynamics7
mpi7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yhaomin2007/voro2hex
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
yhaomin2007/Nek_me
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:63 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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