Siyang Yu
Head Of Engineering, AV Development Infrastructure at Horizon Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiyang Yu is a seasoned software engineering leader with 10 years of experience building infrastructure for autonomous driving and cloud data systems, currently heading a 100+ engineer organization at Horizon Robotics to accelerate urban AV development. He has deep expertise in simulation platforms, unified data management, and data flywheel systems gained through senior roles at Cruise, Baidu USA, and Google. Siyang combines hands-on backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to notable open-source projects like Alluxio—with large-scale program leadership, bridging low-level JVM/network improvements and high-level validation, labeling, and visualization platforms. Comfortable operating across research, product, and operations, he’s driven both core developer toolchains and deployment pipelines that turn real-world driving data into actionable models.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Fudan UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Information Science, Master of Science (MS) Information Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
javas10
java10
data-analysis8
presto7
hadoop7
spark7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Alluxio/alluxio
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
Alluxio, data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 28 PRs, 99 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Siyang primarily contributed to the Alluxio project by modifying Java code related to server-side components. Their work involved implementing and refining functionalities, such as overriding the `equals` and `hashCode` methods for the `WebInterfaceWorkersServlet.NodeInfo` class. Additionally, the user updated the code to use `ByteBuf` for improved network protocol handling, and cleaned up unused constants. Furthermore, they introduced utility functions for predefined stream options within the integration tests.
data-analysisvirtual-distributed-filesystemanalyticsorchestrationdata-science
siyangy/apollo
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
An open autonomous driving platform
Contributions:42 pushes, 49 branches in 7 months
autonomousmachine-learningautonomous-drivingautopilotmavlink
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