Jimmy Yan
Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Yan is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale ML and cloud systems, currently at Google DeepMind after roles across Google Research and Vertex AI. He combines research-rooted expertise from his MS at UCSD with production engineering—working on projects from video generation and Imagen to core Vertex AI infrastructure. Early work on optical networking drivers for the open-source ONOS project demonstrates his ability to bridge low-level device drivers and high-level distributed systems. Based in the Bay Area, he moves fluidly between research and product engineering, shipping robust backend services and contributing to open-source networking tooling. Notably, his background spans both systems-level C++/Java driver development and ML-focused cloud infra, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on AI deployment.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoAlbany High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
javas10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
java10
openflow10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opennetworkinglab/onos
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Open Network Operating System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily focused on enhancing the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) backend, particularly within the context of optical networking. Their contributions involved implementing features related to optical port details, fixing issues in OMS port calculations, and implementing the power configuration for Oplink devices. They also contributed to Oplink drivers for port adjacency and enhanced channel power configurations. These changes involved modifications to core API and driver modules.
ospfopenflowbazeloperating-systemnfv
yjimmyy/vimrc
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
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