Yaming Kuang
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYaming Kuang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over 15 years of deep expertise in distributed systems, file systems, and software-defined storage, currently building Uber’s next-generation Object Store Platform and Lance-as-a-Service for high-performance cloud data pipelines. He led design and implementation of eBay’s HomeBlocks/HomeStore/IOManager projects, architecting low-latency, highly available storage to run database and search backends at scale. Previously a technical lead on EMC midrange file systems, he holds 12 granted U.S. patents in file system and SDS technologies, reflecting a consistent focus on data-path design and performance tuning. Based in Los Gatos, he blends hands-on systems programming with architectural leadership, and is known for taking storage stacks from ground-up prototypes to production-grade platforms.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Dalian University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
storage-engine10
blob-store9
async9
data-structure9
cpp9
service-layer9
data-structures8
session-management8
grpc5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yamingk/HomeObject
Sep 2023 - May 2025
Replicated BLOB Store built upon HomeStore and NuRaft
Contributions:47 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
eBay/HomeBlocks
Feb 2023 - Dec 2025
Replicated BLOCK Store built upon HomeStore
Contributions:107 reviews, 53 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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