Yaoyang Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYaoyang Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems in the San Francisco Bay Area. At Google he has shipped large-scale networking control planes and low-latency state streaming to tens of thousands of nodes, worked on AlloyDB replication for cost-effective distributed databases, and now develops LLM-powered AI agents for automated troubleshooting of complex distributed systems. His background blends rigorous systems engineering (UC Berkeley, UIUC) with practical production experience at scale, delivering millions of state changes per second with millisecond latencies and strong consistency guarantees. Yaoyang is comfortable across networking, databases, and AI tooling, and brings a pragmatic research-to-production mindset that surfaces in both performance engineering and automation. Notably, he leverages deep systems expertise to encode operator-level knowledge into AI agents, accelerating incident resolution across Google-scale infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Systems Engineering, Master's degree Systems Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
deep-learning9
xla9
pytorch9
compiler8
tpu7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zyy-martin/topic-models
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
zyy-martin/Profile
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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