Yang Wang
Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Wang is a Principal Software Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with 11 years building scalable backend systems and security-focused features for large distributed platforms. At Elastic he progressed from Senior to Principal, contributing to core Elasticsearch security and user profile management, including audit integration for security domains in a widely used open-source search engine. His background spans enterprise and public sector roles—Oracle, Aconex and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology—where he combined domain data expertise with software engineering to deliver production-grade services. Holding a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, he brings uncommon rigor from research into system design and troubleshooting, often surfacing subtle correctness and auditability improvements in critical infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
security10
javas10
elasticsearch10
user-authentication10
authentication10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
lucene9
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3156 reviews, 728 commits, 1541 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Yang primarily contributed to the implementation of features related to user profile management, specifically focusing on supporting literal usernames as the base for profile identifiers and integrating audit support for security domains. The contributions also included addressing bugs and enhancing functionalities within the security module. The code changes indicate an involvement in the core logic of the search engine.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
ywangd/pythonista-tools-installer
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 7 months
installation-scriptpythoninstallationpythonista
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