Summary
Xiaoyun Yang is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building scalable, business-aware platform systems and developer-friendly APIs. She has led architecture and cross-team initiatives at IonQ—designing mission-critical user/org management, billing, and notification systems—and previously drove fullstack and localization efforts at OkCupid, including an offline-first chat redesign and an open-source i18n linter. As a founding engineer at startups and a former Navy-affiliated product lead at Naval Reactors, she combines product-minded systems design with hands-on execution and mentorship. An indie hacker and blogger, she obsessively balances performance, maintainability, and developer velocity, and has a track record of turning customer feedback into measurable reductions in support and deployment friction.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Bronx Science
Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University