Wei Yang
Information Systems Specialist
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Yang is an Information Systems Specialist with nearly two decades of experience leading software, storage, and distributed computing projects for large scientific collaborations, based in San Jose. With a Ph.D. in Physics, he blends deep scientific domain knowledge and systems engineering to architect HPC, storage, and data-transfer solutions for SLAC and the ATLAS community. He is a long-time contributor and maintainer in XRootD—implementing GridFTP/Globus integration, Posix interfaces, checksumming, and proxy-cache capabilities that helped bring XRootD into LHC-scale production. Comfortable both as a C/C++/Python developer and a Unix systems admin, he has driven R&D on SSD caching, federated data services, and containerized Jupyter/Dask analysis environments. His work spans hands-on performance tuning and high-level strategy, including DOE proposal leadership and convening exascale computing tracks for the community.
19 years of coding experience
Ph.D, Physics, Ph.D, Physics at Colorado State University
Github Skills (11)
filesystem10
c-language10
posixct10
cprogramming-language10
posix10
x10
devops9
apidoc9
api9
user-authentication8
authentication8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xrootd/xrootd
Feb 2007 - Sep 2022
The XRootD central repository https://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=XRootD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 29 reviews, 79 commits in 15 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Wei contributed to the XRootD repository by implementing features related to Globus GridFTP integration and enhancing the Posix interface. They also addressed performance issues, added support for new features like /dev/zero and partial file transfer, and integrated Adler32 checksum calculations. Furthermore, they made changes related to the xrootdfs component, focusing on authentication, and file system operations, and improved the integration with XrdCl and XrdEC for enhanced functionality and performance.
tarballxrootdstorageaixdistributed-file-system
wyang007/rucioN2N-for-Xcache
May 2017 - Nov 2020
Please use the repo in Xrootd (Frozen: Xrootd Name-to-Name plugin for Disk Caching Proxy to utilize RUCIO metalink)
Contributions:2 PRs, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
proxydiskcachingfrozenplugin
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