Yaliang Wu
Software Engineering Manager at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYaliang Wu is a Seattle-based Software Engineering Manager with seven years of experience building distributed systems and machine learning features at Amazon. He combines hands-on SDE roots with leadership responsibilities, guiding teams that deliver scalable, secure services. An active OpenSearch contributor, he has extended the security-dashboards-plugin to add and refine ML-related cluster permissions and improve code organization. Comfortable across the full stack, Yaliang blends infrastructure-level thinking with practical product focus to make ML features producible and auditable in large-scale clusters. He brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to shipable systems informed by deep experience in distributed search and analytics.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Beihang University
Github Skills (3)
javascript10
opensearch10
react8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/security-dashboards-plugin
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
🔐 Manage your internal users, roles, access control, and audit logs from OpenSearch Dashboards
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Yaliang primarily focused on configuring and extending the functionality of the security-dashboards-plugin related to Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Their contributions involved adding and modifying cluster permissions for various ML features within the plugin. These changes included adding permissions for actions such as executing, training, and managing ML models. Furthermore, the user maintained and organized the code by sorting permissions lexicographically.
opensearch-pluginsinternalauditdashboardsopensearch-dashboards
ylwu-amzn/ml-commons
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
ml-commons provides a set of common machine learning algorithms, e.g. k-means, or linear regression, to help developers build ML related features within OpenSearch.
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 PRs, 1269 pushes in 3 years 4 months
regressioncommonsk-meansdata-sciencemachine-learning-algorithms
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