Yang Ding
Visiting Research Fellow at University of Notre Dame
Liaoning, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Ding is a visiting research fellow and software engineer bridging academic geophysics and production-grade open-source engineering with three years of hands-on development experience. Based at the University of Notre Dame, he models near-fault ground motion using hybrid stochastic-deterministic methods while maintaining an active engineering footprint contributing to cloud-native tooling. His open-source work includes back-end and test-automation improvements to dragonflyoss/nydus—enhancing prefetch-file handling in Rust and extending Python test suites to validate container image access performance. Comfortable moving between scientific research and systems programming, he combines rigorous doctoral training in infrastructure engineering with practical contributions that improve real-world container image workflows.
3 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science in Management Science (B.S.Mgt.Sci.), Project Management, Bachelor of Science in Management Science (B.S.Mgt.Sci.), Project Management at North China University of Water Resource and Hydroelectric PowerDoctor, Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Doctor, Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering at Dalian University of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
rust10
python10
pytest9
container-image9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
storage7
containerd7
docker6
filesystem6
dockers6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dragonflyoss/nydus
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Nydus - the Dragonfly image service, providing fast, secure and easy access to container images.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:66 reviews, 9 commits, 103 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Yang primarily focused on enhancing the "prefetch-files" functionality within the Nydus image service. They modified the service's command-line interface to accept and process a file containing a list of files to prefetch. The contributions extend to updating the test suite (nydus-test) to validate the correct behavior of the prefetch functionality. These changes involved code modifications in both Rust (nydusd binary) and Python (nydus-test framework).
containerssecurevmscontainerddocker-image
Desiki-high/nydus-snapshotter
Dec 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
data-deduplicationcontainerdp2pdockerdeduplication
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