Yi Z
Director Of Software Engineering at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYi Z is a technology executive and Director of Software Engineering at Google in New York with 17 years of experience building and scaling large distributed systems across ads, marketplace, and collaboration products. He advanced through multiple engineering and leadership roles at Google—including Ads optimization, Ad Manager experiments, and Google Drive—and spent time as a senior staff engineer at Uber focused on grocery financial products for Eats. Yi blends deep technical expertise (PhD-level training) with product-facing leadership, driving optimization and recommendation systems as well as platform improvements that support billions of users. He is known for moving between individual contributor impact and cross-functional team leadership, rapidly shipping high-impact features while mentoring senior engineers. Based in NYC, he brings a research-informed approach to pragmatic engineering decisions and a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes in complex, latency- and scale-sensitive domains. An under-the-radar strength is his repeated role in surfacing actionable insights from experimentation and metrics to inform product direction.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Duke UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Software, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Software at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (5)
yizhang/sim
Jan 2009 - Oct 2009
Contributions:12 commits in 8 months
yizhang/yizhang.github.io
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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