Jerry Yang
Technical Lead Architect at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJerry Yang is a Technical Lead Architect based in San Jose with over a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable infrastructure and data services for major tech companies. He currently architects manufacturing ML platforms and cloud systems at Apple, having previously led infrastructure and data teams at Roblox, eBay, WalmartLabs, Addepar, Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Comfortable across languages and stacks—Java, Go, Python, .NET, C++—he blends deep systems engineering with data-store expertise (Redis, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka) to deliver high-throughput, production-grade services. Known for squeezing 10x performance gains and building services that handle thousands of QPS, he favors pragmatic engineering and automation to solve complex operational problems. Trained originally in civil engineering and later computer science (Stony Brook, NYU), he brings a structural, systems-level mindset to software architecture. His GitHub motto—"Good Programmers are made, not born"—reflects a commitment to mentorship and continuous craft improvement behind the scenes.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
toolbox10
mach-o10
linux10
macos10
hook8
golang7
vscode-extension6
caliper6
benchmark6
procedure5
blockchain-network5
blockchain5
vscode5
go5
typescript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gerryyang/english-notes
May 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:15 pushes in 6 years 6 months
gerryyang/TLPI
May 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:91 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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