Yage Hu
Graduate Teaching Assistant
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYage Hu is an experienced software and systems engineer with 11 years of industry and research experience spanning embedded systems, backend services, and WebAssembly runtimes. He blends hands-on hardware knowledge from an Electrical/Computer Engineering background with production-grade software work in Rust, Go, C++, Kotlin, and Python, having shipped services at companies like Uber, Amazon, Meta, and contributed bug fixes to the prominent Wasmer WebAssembly project. In research roles he applied formal methods (TLA+) to specify and test WASI while building benchmarking and test suites, demonstrating a rare combination of formal specification skills and practical syscall/runtime debugging. Yage has repeatedly improved reliability and performance—e.g., migrating services for 30x speedups and hardening WASI fd/path semantics—and enjoys digging into low-level correctness as well as cloud and infra concerns. He is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UGA, bringing academic rigor to real-world systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering at University of California, DavisUniversity of Georgia
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
filesystem10
wasi10
file-operations10
system-calls10
fileio10
blazor-webassembly10
webassembly10
rust10
testing9
error-handling9
wasmer8
linux8
system6
non-deterministic6
coq6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wasmerio/wasmer
Sep 2020 - Oct 2024
🚀 Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 18 PRs, 25 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yage primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the WASM runtime's WASIX implementation. Their contributions include correcting issues related to file descriptor operations such as `fd_seek` and `fd_advise`, ensuring correct behavior and preventing underflows or security vulnerabilities. They also addressed several issues related to the `path_open` system call, including handling empty paths, trailing slashes, and directory write access. Furthermore, they improved the testing framework by fixing tests related to WASI compliance.
emscriptenwindowsrustwasmerjavascript
yagehu/regreddit
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Regreddit? Nuke it.
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 10 days
nukereddit
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