Xiaoyu Yang
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaoyu Yang is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with over a decade of hands-on experience building large-scale, high-performance distributed systems and search infrastructure. Specializing in information retrieval, she has driven search products across web, image, answer, and vertical search while applying deep expertise in C/C++, multi-threading, network programming, and OS-level performance debugging. Her background spans research (Ph.D. level work in computer architecture and OS) through senior engineering roles at Ask.com and Bloomberg, giving her a rare mix of academic rigor and production-hardened engineering. Known for pragmatic architecture design and scripting fluency in Perl and Shell, she focuses on scalable, maintainable solutions that improve user relevance and system reliability. Based in New York, she combines a researcher’s curiosity with product-focused delivery to tackle complex search challenges.
3 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering at University of CincinnatiBS, Computer Science and Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (19)
asynchronous9
json9
avro9
java9
rest9
discovery9
api9
jax-rs9
rest-api9
kotlin8
scalable8
restful8
swagger8
gradle8
restful-api8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
xiaoyu-yang-gh/avro-util
Jan 2023 - Feb 2024
Collection of utilities to allow writing java code that operates across a wide range of avro versions.
Contributions:13 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 1 month
avrojavarange
linkedin/avro-util
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Collection of utilities to allow writing java code that operates across a wide range of avro versions.
Contributions:14 releases, 60 reviews, 1 commit in 1 day
avrojavarange
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