Wen-yun Yang
Software Engineer at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWen-yun Yang is a versatile software engineer and machine learning researcher with nine years of experience building production-grade ranking, retrieval, and recommendation systems at top tech companies including Meta, Kuaishou, JD.com and Facebook. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and has bridged academic research and industry by applying deep learning to search, personalized ranking, and computational genomics—having worked on whole-genome analysis and a genome "search" subsystem at Human Longevity, Inc. At JD.com he architected end-to-end embedding retrieval and optimized TensorFlow training/serving pipelines that handled full production traffic, and at Meta he continues to contribute to large-scale product systems. Comfortable across the full stack, Wen-yun combines strong research instincts with pragmatic engineering, often refactoring legacy systems into scalable, model-driven services. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a rare mix of genomics ML experience and large-scale recommendation engineering to product-focused teams.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
ui-components10
typescript10
react10
antd9
react-components9
javascript9
jquery9
ui-design9
css9
vue9
nodejs9
resume9
js9
frontend9
html8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wind1996/s-ui
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
https://wind1996.github.io/s-ui/
Contributions:6 PRs, 87 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
reacttypescript
wind1996/e-ui
Jun 2020 - Apr 2024
e-ui
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 11 months
reacttypescript
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