Yang Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Zhang is a seasoned engineer and founder with 19 years of experience building ML-driven, data-powered business applications and developer tools. Co-founder of Infer and Plasmic, he has shipped systems adopted by F1000 companies and high-growth tech firms, blending expertise in machine learning, statistical modeling, distributed systems, databases, and programming languages. His background spans top research labs—Google, Microsoft, IBM, Yahoo—and graduate work at MIT after a BS in EECS from Berkeley, giving him a rare mix of deep research rigor and product-focused execution. Recently at Anthropic, he continues to bridge cutting-edge research and production engineering, and his open-source contributions include front-end work on the popular Plasmic visual builder for React. Notably, he combines startup grit with institutional research experience, making him especially effective at turning complex models into scalable, customer-facing products.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS EECS, BS EECS at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
plasmicapp/plasmic
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:206 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yang primarily contributed to the user interface of the "plasmicapp/plasmic" repository, demonstrating a focus on building and improving React components. Their commits involved adding features, such as integrating debugging capabilities and making changes to URLs. The user made several commits to update form items.
cmsdrag-dropheadlesslowcodecss
yang/web-reader
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
Listen to web page articles read aloud as a podcast! This web app converts URLs you submit (via bookmarklet/app) into an MP3 audio feed using text-to-speech
Contributions:108 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 7 years 11 months
urlsread-articlespodcastmp3speech-to-text
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