Yang Zhao
Principal Engineer, Developer Upskilling & AI Enablement at SAP
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolYang Zhao is a Principal Engineer specializing in developer upskilling and AI enablement, with 20+ years of experience building SaaS, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms. He combines hands-on engineering with organizational design, having led teams from 5 to 34 people across the US and China and run developer programs that scale globally. At SAP he grew an inner-source AI infra project from zero to 1,200 users in five months by treating adoption as a product problem, not a rollout. He’s delivered high-availability backend services and large UI component libraries while coaching teams on modern practices like TDD, CI/CD, and microservices. Based in Palo Alto, he’s focused on how AI-native tools reshape workflows and is actively mentoring technical leaders navigating that shift. Notably, he stays code-adjacent as a leader because he believes sustained influence requires hands-on craft.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor Computer Science and Technology at Beihang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (110)
pg-promise10
variants10
sms10
pg-mem10
slonik10
continuous-testing9
feature-toggle9
feature-flags9
login-page9
jwt9
identity9
authentication9
auth9
backend9
totp9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yangzhaox/loopback-connector-saphana
Sep 2014 - Dec 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 6 years 4 months
loopbackconnectorsap-hanasaploopback-connector
moochee/moochee
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 comment, 5 issues in 10 months
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