Johnny Y
Software Engineer II at CoStar Group
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Y is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building full-stack and distributed systems, currently at CoStar Group. He has shipped projects ranging from ML-based species identification research to enterprise-grade Kafka monitoring tools, showing strength across data, backend infrastructure, and web stacks. Rapid progression through roles at CoStar — from intern to Software Engineer II — highlights his ability to deliver and scale within complex product environments. A University of Virginia CS graduate, he pairs academic research experience with practical production engineering. Based in Virginia and active on GitHub as "CompNerd," he blends curiosity-driven side projects with pragmatic solutions for observability and data pipelines. Notably, his background in both field research and large-scale messaging systems gives him a rare perspective on applying ML and systems engineering to real-world problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (36)
static-site9
tera8
aws8
development-kit7
pdf7
typescript7
docx7
cloud-infrastructure7
rust7
infrastructure6
pandoc6
infrastructure-as-code6
nodejs6
linux6
terraform6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jadeknightjr/fitApp
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
johnnywong1/GeometryOfData
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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