Yanming Tang
Engineering Manager at Zoom
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYanming Tang is an engineering manager with 10 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling, currently leading Retrieval-Augmented Generation infrastructure at Zoom from Kirkland, WA. He has a strong Microsoft pedigree—driving Azure Application Change Analysis to 800K subscriptions and developing widely used diagnostics and storage tooling (including components with millions of downloads and Azure Storage Explorer with 200K monthly users). Yanming blends hands-on engineering (notable open-source contributions to Azure PowerShell diagnostics commands) with cross-team orchestration, having redefined deployment systems and standardized API annotations across hundreds of services. He has moved between startup-like product delivery and large-scale platform leadership at Rippling, Hive, and Microsoft, often focusing on dataset management, REST API platforms, and observability. Known for pragmatic automation that reduces on-call toil and for making integrations work across resource boundaries, he emphasizes quality without sacrificing speed. He holds a master’s in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and brings a background that spans research, product engineering, and production-scale operations.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Shanghai Weiyu High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (12)
powershell10
azure-powershell10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
arm9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Nov 2015 - Dec 2017
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 13 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years
Contributions summary:Yanming primarily focused on enhancing the Azure PowerShell module by modifying the diagnostics extension commands. They made optional parameters for `Get` and `Remove` AzureRMVMDiagnosticsExtension commands, improving usability. Furthermore, the user refactored the `Set-AzureRmVmDiagnosticsExtension` command to accept storage-related parameters and function with storage accounts outside the current resource group, increasing flexibility. Additionally, they incorporated support for JSON and blob configuration files, expanding configuration options.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
yantang-msft/service-fabric-application-insights-example
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Example of using Application Insights to empower the trace correlation in Service Fabric
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
fabricapplication-insightstraceempowercorrelation
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