Shengzhe Y
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShengzhe Y is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 13 years of experience building large-scale, low-latency systems and developer platforms across Google, YouTube, and startups. Currently at Google DeepMind working on the Antigravity CLI, he previously led Colab’s AI platform as Head of Engineering and drove Vertex AI and Google Play analytics engineering efforts that processed petabyte-scale data and hundreds of terabytes daily. He combines deep backend and database expertise—contributing to the prominent Vitess project—with hands-on experience optimizing JVMs, real-time ML pipelines, and high-QPS data stores. Known for founding and scaling distributed teams internationally, Shengzhe blends technical depth with product-driven delivery and a track record of shipping AI-first tooling that redefines developer workflows.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (10)
javas10
databases10
sql10
mysql10
java10
database10
go9
database-cluster9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:340 commits, 301 PRs, 161 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Shengzhe primarily focused on improving integration tests and handling schema changes within the Vitess database clustering system. They fixed issues within the MapReduce integration tests, notably addressing iterator errors and index issues. The user also made code changes related to byte array serialization and deserialization using Gson adapters, as well as refactoring and removing support for ZK paths in vtctl commands, and improving Java client capabilities, demonstrating database engineering and back-end development skills.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
yaoshengzhe/vitess
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:863 pushes, 336 branches, 2 comments in 9 months
mysql-databasesmysqlvitessscalevite
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