Xiangyu Yao
Software Engineer at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiangyu Yao is a software engineer with a decade of experience focused on storage and backend systems, currently working on the MongoDB Storage Team in New York. He brings practical kernel- and storage-level expertise, contributing notably to the official mongodb/mongo-c-driver—adding data validation, bulk-operation flags, and BSON-handling helpers that tightened correctness and test coverage. His background includes research and teaching roles at Brown University and an internship on Messenger at Facebook, reflecting strong systems foundations and collaborative engineering across academia and industry. Known for shipping careful, test-driven changes in low-level C code, he combines deep technical rigor with an eye for practical API and validation improvements.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Brown UniversityNanjing Foreign Language School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
mongodb-driver10
c1110
data-validation10
mongodb10
bson10
nosql10
mongodb-database10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-c-driver
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
The Official MongoDB driver for C language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Xiangyu primarily contributed to the MongoDB C Driver, focusing on features related to data validation and the inclusion of validation flags within bulk operations. Key changes involved modifying code for inserting, updating, and replacing documents, alongside test suite enhancements. Further contributions included implementing and adding tests for new functions to append regex, decimal128s of specific lengths, and iterative searches within a BSON document.
drivernosqldatabasemongodb-drivermongodb
xy24/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
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