Yang Song
Software Engineer at Google
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolYang Song is a software engineer with over a decade of experience and eight years focused on large-scale C++ systems, currently working on Nest at Google. He specializes in Linux kernel and networking, low-latency multithreaded systems, and heterogeneous computing with FPGA and CUDA, having built runtime platforms at Synopsys and optimized mobile-cloud pipelines in academic research. Yang bridges deep systems knowledge with practical product work—shipping core infrastructure at Verkada and moving into consumer IoT at Google—while retaining an applied research mindset from his GPU-accelerated face recognition and task allocation work. Comfortable across the full development lifecycle, he brings a rare combination of kernel-level expertise, real-time performance tuning, and hands-on FPGA/CUDA experience that accelerates device-to-cloud interactions. Based in Shanghai, he pairs global engineering experience with academic rigor from University of Rochester and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering at University of RochesterBachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
wireless10
openthread10
embedded10
iot10
internet-of-things10
google10
ipv610
nest10
networking10
posix9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yangsong-cnyn/ot-br-posix
Sep 2024 - Jul 2026
OpenThread Border Router, a Thread border router for POSIX-based platforms.
Contributions:220 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 9 months
yangsong-cnyn/openthread
Mar 2025 - Jun 2026
OpenThread released by Google is an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol
Contributions:196 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.