Michael Yang
Engineering - We're Hiring at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Yang is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building production-grade systems for enterprises across energy, manufacturing, finance, and payments. Currently at Stripe, he manages Revenue Recovery and Optimization, led the launch of Stripe Revenue Recognition, and redesigned Smart Retries into a service-oriented architecture. Previously as a Forward Deployed Engineer and technical lead at Palantir he built a serverless developer platform, scalable Java and Python runtimes, CI tooling, and an optimization engine that unlocked millions in ad revenue for clients. He combines hands-on systems architecture, distributed data processing (Spark), and product-facing delivery with team leadership and client-facing roles. Based in Seattle and trained in computer science and economics at Columbia, he has a track record of turning complex domain problems into operational, revenue-generating software. Notably, he moves between low-level infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle) and high-level business outcomes, which helps him ship practical solutions fast.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Economics, 4.04, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Economics, 4.04 at Columbia University in the City of New York
Japanese, English
Github Skills (9)
rust10
id310
blas10
jsonwebtoken10
go9
lapack7
survival-analysis4
mruby2
golang2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mikkyang/rust-jwt
May 2015 - Jan 2022
JSON Web Token library for Rust
Contributions:6 releases, 309 commits, 122 PRs in 6 years 8 months
jsonwebtokenrust
mikkyang/id3-go
Dec 2013 - Oct 2019
ID3 library for Go
Contributions:129 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 10 months
goid3
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