Mike Yang
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Yang is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with four years of professional experience building backend systems at LinkedIn. He focuses on distributed object storage and cloud-related functionality, contributing notable refactors and feature work to LinkedIn’s Ambry project, including named-blob APIs, MySQL migration handling, delete-operation fixes, and improved logging for debuggability. Comfortable operating in production-scale environments, he blends pragmatic engineering with attention to maintainability and observability. Though early in his career, he has taken ownership of complex backend subsystems and shows a pattern of improving long-lived infrastructure rather than just adding features.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
javas10
object-storage10
back-end-development10
mysql10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
distributed-systems9
api-rest9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
linkedin/ambry
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Distributed object store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:193 reviews, 14 commits, 49 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on back-end development within the Ambry distributed object store. Their contributions included significant code cleanup and refactoring related to cloud functionality, specifically within the SimpleOperationTracker. They also implemented features for the named blob update API, including modifications to MySQL-related code for data migration and the handling of blob states. Additionally, they addressed issues in the delete operation and improved logging for debugging named blob issues.
object-store
mikeyang923/ambry
May 2022 - May 2023
Distributed object store
Contributions:102 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year
distributed-systemsobject-storedistributed-object-storedistributed
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