Yi Zhu
Principal Software Dev Engineer at Yahoo
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Zhu is a Principal Software Development Engineer with nine years focused on designing and operating large-scale distributed web and microservice platforms from San Jose. At Yahoo he led and maintained Graviton and YQL/YQL+, platforms that power major media properties (Sports, Finance, Mail, Weather, News) and bridged on-prem and cloud deployments via Docker and hybrid execution. He combines deep Java backend expertise (Spring Boot, Jetty, gRPC, GraphQL, Redis) with hands-on devops skills—building Kubernetes and Docker pipelines and owning production monitoring and release flows. Known as a pragmatic mentor, he frequently guides teams through onboarding, performance tuning, and end-to-end feature delivery. An under-the-radar achievement: he open sourced YQL+ and was for a time its sole contributor, demonstrating both initiative and long-term stewardship of critical infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Delaware
Github Skills (42)
yql10
parser10
ssl10
jsp10
leiningen10
peg10
java10
servlet10
http-server10
sdk10
parser-generator10
query-language10
j2ee10
eclipse10
aem10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/metrics-api
Dec 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 releases, 21 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 5 months
metrics
dsyzhu/yql-plus
Dec 2016 - May 2021
The YQL+ parser, execution engine, and source SDK
Contributions:181 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 5 months
yqlyql-parsersdkexecution-enginesource-sdk
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