Ling Yuan
Software Engineer at Netflix
United States
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Top SchoolLing Yuan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure and core services, currently shaping platform reliability at Netflix after leading service mesh, load balancing, and real-time dispatch work at Uber. Educated at Carnegie Mellon in both ECE and Computer Science, Ling combines rigorous systems thinking with startup grit from hands-on roles at a YC-backed, Sequoia-funded company. Known for pragmatism around Conway’s Law, Ling excels at aligning teams, tools, and architecture to deliver resilient, operable systems at scale. Colleagues rely on Ling for deep infrastructure expertise and a talent for turning complex distributed systems challenges into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (100)
high-availability10
proxy10
failover10
rest-api10
golang10
high-performance10
grpc10
database10
kubernetes10
key-value-store10
storage10
kafka10
load-balancing10
distributed-systems10
etcd10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fiibbb/etcd
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
criticaldistributed-systemreliabledistributed-systemsdatabase
fiibbb/goraft
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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