Yao You
Principal Software Engineer at Unstructured
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolYao You is a Principal Software Engineer in Houston with a PhD in Geosciences and a decade of experience bridging earth science research and production data systems. He has progressed from geologist and research programmer roles into senior data scientist and engineering leadership positions at Primer.ai and Unstructured, delivering quantitative models, experimental analysis, and scalable ML-driven products. His background in petrophysical analysis and basin modeling informs pragmatic approaches to complex data pipelines and scientific computation. Yao contributes to open source—most notably adding multi-output format support and tests to the widely used pytesseract Python wrapper—demonstrating attention to robust backend and QA practices. He combines deep domain expertise with hands-on engineering, often translating experimental lab data into reliable software features. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous problem-solving that marries geoscience intuition with production-grade code.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's degree Geology/Earth Science General, Master's degree Geology/Earth Science General at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor's degree Geology/Earth Science General, Bachelor's degree Geology/Earth Science General at Peking University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (10)
ocr10
tesseractjs10
lib10
tess4j10
ocra10
pytest10
python10
tesseract10
test-automation10
image-processing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
madmaze/pytesseract
Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:2 PRs, 3 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Yao primarily contributed to the implementation of a new feature allowing for multiple output formats from the pytesseract library, significantly enhancing its flexibility. This involved modifications to the core `pytesseract.py` file, adding functionality to handle various output types (e.g., PDF, TXT, Box, TSV, HOCR) and integrating them into the existing workflow. They also added tests to cover the new functionality.
pythongooglepython-wrappertesseractbinder
Unstructured-IO/unstructured.pytesseract
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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