Summary
Yefu Wang is a seasoned software engineer and team lead based in California with 10 years of experience building high-performance real-time and embedded systems in C, C++ and C#. He currently leads the backend engineering team at Kanopy and previously delivered firmware, compiler and simulator tooling as a principal engineer at AGGIOS, where his work cut SoC power use by 36% through compile-time and manual optimizations. At Siemens Healthcare he rewrote decades-old data-acquisition software and invented algorithms that, for example, reduced a critical component’s memory use by 98%, demonstrating a knack for instruction-level and parallel performance tuning. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and combines deep systems-level expertise (Linux, Xen, device drivers) with practical product delivery and automation. Colleagues rely on him for translating research-grade ideas into production-grade code and for navigating the intersection of low-level performance, power efficiency, and system reliability. An interesting detail: he designed and largely implemented a domain-specific declarative language and compiler (UHA) to describe SoC hardware and generate power-optimized firmware.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Digital Media Art, Associate of Arts - AA, Digital Media Art at Irvine Valley College
Master of Science (2006) and Bachelor of Science (2003), Control Science and Engineering; Bachelor of Science (2004), Finance, Master of Science (2006) and Bachelor of Science (2003), Control Science and Engineering; Bachelor of Science (2004), Finance at Harbin Institute of Technology
Ph.D, Computer Engineering, Ph.D, Computer Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English, Chinese