Ming Yan
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMing Yan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with nine years of full-stack development experience and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Colorado Boulder. He transitioned from academic research—developing Python/C++ simulation tools, managing large HDF5 datasets, and publishing in Journal of Fluid Mechanics—into production software roles at Lucid and Google, where he now contributes at senior level. Ming brings a strong quantitative background and experience with scientific computing, data processing pipelines, and visualization tooling that inform pragmatic, data-driven engineering decisions. Comfortable across backend and frontend stacks, he pairs research rigor with product-focused shipping cadence and has presented work at major scientific meetings, reflecting clear technical communication skills. An engineer who translates complex physical models into scalable software, he often leverages scripting and tooling automation to tame large datasets and accelerate team productivity.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Geophysics and Seismology, Bachelor of Science - BS Geophysics and Seismology at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Geophysics at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Superczx/CSCI4502-datamining-project
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes in 2 months
peya8291/peya8291.github.io
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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