Paul Yang
Senior Software Engineer at Conversant LLC
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Yang is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with 8 years of recent experience and a deep legacy of systems work spanning over three decades. He combines enterprise-grade backend expertise from long tenures at IBM and Candle with modern full-stack contributions to high-profile open-source ad tech—helping enhance the Conversant bid adapter in Prebid.js for GDPR/CCPA compliance, video support, and Prebid Server compatibility. Paul has repeatedly driven performance improvements at scale, including a 90% CPU reduction when porting legacy scripts to C++ and contributing large common service libraries used across products. He is comfortable across languages and environments (C/C++, Java, distributed systems, graph databases, Kafka) and has hands-on troubleshooting experience with Linux, AIX, Solaris, and Windows. Known for pragmatic design that preserves backward compatibility while improving scalability, he also brings production-focused monitoring and observability expertise from building real-time monitoring frameworks. His background is rounded by a CS MS and BS from UCLA, reflecting both academic depth and long-term operational impact.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Manga Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Manga Cum Laude at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
adaptor10
javascript10
header-bidding10
adapter10
prebid10
gdpr9
ccpa9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/Prebid.js
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 24 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the Conversant bid adapter within the Prebid.js framework. Their contributions included updating the adapter to support Prebid 1.0, incorporating features like TTL and net revenue, and converting parameters for Prebid server. They also implemented support for GDPR and CCPA compliance, and added features to handle video player sizes and extended IDs, demonstrating a strong understanding of header bidding and ad tech integrations. Additionally, they implemented updates to the PubCommonID module.
headerprebidjavascriptconfusingbidding
conversant/pubcid.js
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:11 reviews, 85 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years 11 months
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