Simon Yan
Software Engineer III at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Yan is a pragmatic software engineer with four years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer-facing infrastructure, currently at Google as a Software Engineer III based in Sunnyvale. He has shipped C++, Go, and Rust services across Cloud Networking, Cloud Network Security, and AWS S3, and previously co-founded Patchwork Labs where he developed the initial product and helped raise pre-seed funding. Simon blends hands-on systems work—Kubernetes/Helm deployments, observability with Prometheus/Grafana, and performance tuning—with product and UX sensibilities from web and API work. He also has a track record automating cloud infrastructure and developer workflows using Terraform, CloudFormation, Lambda, and CI pipelines. A University of Waterloo computer engineering graduate and self-described PhD-level AI enthusiast on GitHub, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a research-minded curiosity to production-scale engineering.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School IB Diploma, High School IB Diploma at International BaccalaureateBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (4)
java5
python4
jpype2
cross-language2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
simonyan2021/notebook
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
Simon-XG-Yan/Simon-XG-Yan.github.io
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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