Yang Deng
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Music
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYang Deng is a Software Development Engineer with 10 years of full-stack experience building high-performance web and streaming services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently at Amazon Music, he designs consumer-facing, web-scale platforms for live event streaming leveraging cloud infrastructure and a pragmatic, improvement-oriented engineering mindset. His background spans PHP and Java backends, MySQL optimization, Elasticsearch/Redis caching, and AWS deployment—skills honed building production systems for ride-dispatch, ticketing, and high-traffic web apps. A NYU computer science master's graduate, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on ops experience and a preference for open-ended problems where technical debate surfaces the best solutions. Notably, he has migrated and scaled legacy systems into modern architectures and repeatedly improved system latency and reliability through database and architecture refactors.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Northeastern University at QinhuangdaoMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at New York University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
hash4
api3
encrypt3
bcrypt3
java3
php2
python2
password-hash2
Github contributions (5)
Polarising/Leetcode
Jan 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
Polarising/bcrypt
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 3 months
apipythonhashphpbcrypt
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