Jian Yang
Software Engineer at Firewalla Inc
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Yang is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of post-graduate experience and a 20+ year engineering career spanning embedded systems, security products, and trading infrastructure. Currently at Firewalla in San Jose, he focuses on shipping robust, efficient solutions that balance immediate needs with long-term maintainability. His background at Cisco includes designing hitless in-service software upgrades, package compatibility models, and code-generation frameworks for complex routing systems, reflecting deep expertise in reliability and modularization. A former trading system engineer at Optiver, he also brings low-latency, operational rigor to software design. Jian holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a BS from Tsinghua, and he pairs strong systems-level C/Perl experience with practical security and deployment know-how. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prioritizes doing things right and making them efficient for the future.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (31)
parental-control10
monitoring10
vpn10
mikrotik10
doh10
router10
security10
routeros10
iot10
dns10
vlan10
raspberry-pi10
msp9
favorites7
serverless6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jimyang2008/poker
May 2021 - Apr 2026
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
jimyang2008/firerouter
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:140 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
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