Summary
Yayang Tian is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building machine learning, algorithms, and distributed systems for large-scale products, currently shaping ads quality infrastructure at Google. Prior roles at Walmart Labs and Microsoft focused on recommendation systems and mobile-scale ML tooling, and early research at the University of Pennsylvania explored sentiment analysis and NLP. Comfortable across research and production, Yayang blends rigorous academic training (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; UPenn) with hands-on engineering to move models from prototype to robust, highly available services. Known on GitHub simply as a "Hacker," he brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset to complex ML problems and a track record of shipping algorithmic improvements in high-throughput environments.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer and Information Science, Master's degree, Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Middle School, Physics, Middle School, Physics at Shenzhen Middle School
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Information Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English