Mingli Yang
Software Engineer at DoorDash
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingli Yang is a software engineer with 15 years of experience building backend systems and data-driven products, currently at DoorDash in Seattle after a tenure at AWS. Trained in Statistics and Computer Science at UIUC and holding an MS in Data Science from Vanderbilt, he blends analytical rigor with practical engineering across cloud, server, and web stacks. He has hands-on experience shipping production services and contributed to the widely used uWSGI project—improving Java WSGI integration and virtual environment support—alongside building scalable crawlers and news-clustering pipelines that served millions. Comfortable in both research and product contexts, he has delivered edtech analytics, large-scale data pipelines, and cloud-native services. Colleagues describe him as an independent researcher-engineer who surfaces subtle protocol and plugin-level fixes that improve system reliability.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Vanderbilt University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
uwsgi10
jna9
javas8
java8
virtual-environment7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
unbit/uwsgi
Dec 2012 - Mar 2013
uWSGI application server container
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mingli contributed to the `uWSGI` application server, specifically focusing on the `jwsgi` plugin. Their work involved modifying the `jwsgi_plugin.c` file, suggesting improvements or bug fixes within the Java Web Server Gateway Interface (JWSGI) integration. Furthermore, the user addressed potential issues within the core of the server and the http plugin. Additionally, commits included supporting virtual environments.
containersdockeruwsgiservercontainer
mountain/the-covenant
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
The covenant between human and LLM-based AI
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 1 day
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