Yao Gu
Software Engineer at Google
California, United States
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Top SchoolYao Gu is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience building ML-driven search and personalization systems, currently improving generative search quality at Google by turning user feedback into actionable model signals. He has driven production projects at Amazon and TripAdvisor—building large-scale personalized recommendation and low-latency services—and earlier research work applied ML and graph embedding to humanitarian and crisis informatics problems. At Google he pioneered LLM-based grounding and an NLP-powered feedback analysis pipeline that reduces manual review and flags factuality risks, and contributed to PyTorch/XLA–JAX interoperability work. Based in California, he blends research-grade experimentation with production engineering, often focusing on automating feedback loops and prioritization to accelerate model improvements. An understated strength is his history of shipping end-to-end systems that bridge applied research, scalable data pipelines, and practical product impact.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Applied Data Science, Master, Applied Data Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Sun Yat-Sen University
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Github Skills (24)
spark-ml9
pytorch9
xla9
compiler8
deep-learning8
api8
pyspark8
dataframe8
pydata8
spark8
polars7
big-data7
mlflow7
pandas7
python7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
guyao/leetcode
Apr 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
guyao/xla
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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