Michael Yan
Principal Architect at MicroStrategy
Vienna, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Yan is a Principal Architect based in Vienna, VA, with a software engineering career that began in 1997 and deep expertise in systems, memory management, and debugging tooling. He has driven server-side architecture and customer escalations at MicroStrategy, built low-level compiler technology at IBM that contributed to an industry standard, and led memory, synchronization, and performance work across multiple roles. Known for a hands-on approach to memory managers, profiling, and stability engineering, he blends practical performance tuning with long-term architectural thinking. His background spans porting legacy systems to Unix/Linux, multi-threaded server design, and forensic-grade system software—skills that make him unusually fluent in both production reliability and low-level diagnostics.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (50)
debug10
memory-allocation10
malloc10
in-memory10
memory-management10
ptrace10
heap10
glibc10
decryption9
ssl9
memory-leaks9
css9
nodejs9
encryption9
chrome9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yanqi27/accutrak
Jan 2016 - Feb 2022
A configurable memory debug tool. It detects general memory errors, such as overrun, underrun, double delete, invalid access of freed memory as well as memory leaks
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 years 2 months
leaksmemorymemory-leaksconfigurabledouble
yanqi27/core_analyzer
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
A power tool to debug memory-related issues
Contributions:6 releases, 31 reviews, 72 commits in 7 years 1 month
memory-managementmemoryptracememory-allocationdebug
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