Yang Guan
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYang Guan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade backend systems at scale, currently at Google after earlier engineering roles at Palantir and an internship at Amazon. He blends deep systems and security expertise—demonstrated by contributions to Istio’s core security and service discovery components—with practical Kubernetes and Go experience, including updating client libraries and hardening controllers. Holding a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on delivery of distributed systems. Known on GitHub simply as "Hacker," he favors tackling hard infrastructure problems that sit at the intersection of observability, networking, and service security.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of DelawareBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
go10
service-discovery10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
api-design9
restful-api9
grpc9
testing9
rest-api9
api-rest9
cicd8
cors6
google-app-engine6
ruby6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:134 commits, 21 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yang focused on implementing and securing core backend components. They created a secure naming controller and implemented methods to manage service associations with pods, demonstrating skills in Kubernetes and service discovery. The user also made modifications to update the Go client libraries for Kubernetes, and fixed linting errors. They contributed to the core features of the security module.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
lookuptable/auth
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:257 pushes, 209 branches in 7 months
istiokubernetesauthentication
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