Shuo Yang
Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShuo Yang is a machine learning engineer with nine years of software experience, currently focused on ads ranking at Pinterest after building ranking systems for Reels, Feeds, and YouTube at Meta and Google. He specializes in applied ML and production ML systems, bringing research-grade modeling from a Columbia PhD background into large-scale recommendation and personalization pipelines. His work spans the full ML lifecycle—modeling, infrastructure, testing and deployment—with practical backend and DevOps contributions to notable open-source projects like GoogleCloudPlatform/esp-v2. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines deep probabilistic and deep-learning expertise with hands-on experience shipping high-throughput ranking systems in production.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate Computer Science, PhD Candidate Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBE Electrical Engineering, BE Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (12)
go10
api-gateway10
apidoc10
gcp10
cicd9
api8
python8
dockers7
testing7
grpc7
docker7
cpp5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/esp-v2
May 2021 - Jan 2023
A service proxy that provides API management capabilities using Google Service Infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 151 reviews, 19 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shuo primarily contributed to enhancing the API management capabilities of the service proxy. Their work included implementing new features, such as the `--cors_max_age` flag for CORS configuration, and fixing scripts related to the release process. They also refactored the code and added an option for gRPC transcoder proto descriptor path and skipped google discovery API during config generation. The user's contributions span across configuration generation, testing, and deployment scripts, indicating a focus on the backend and infrastructure aspects of the project.
api-gatewayapigolangcppproxy
shuoyang2016/grpc-httpjson-transcoding
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Transcoding to provide HTTP/JSON interface for gRPC Service
Contributions:16 pushes in 2 years 3 months
golanggrpcgrpc-servicejson-interfacetranscoding
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