Yichen Yao
Production Engineer at Meta
Newark, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYichen Yao is a production engineer with nine years of experience building and operating high-throughput stream processing systems at Meta from his base in Newark, California. He combines a strong academic foundation—M.S. in Computer Science from USC with a 4.0 GPA and a B.S. in ECE from Shanghai Jiao Tong University—with hands-on roles across internships at Intel and startups. Yichen has contributed to large open-source projects such as Microsoft’s react-native-windows, improving Unicode handling, build reliability, and JSI unit tests—work that spans low-level platform fixes to cross-platform build tooling. He brings a practical full-stack perspective to production issues, evident in fixes like MemoryMappedBuffer additions and CMake/x86 build repairs. Colleagues benefit from his background in both teaching and grading university courses, which sharpens his ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs. He’s the kind of engineer who pairs rigorous testing and legacy-code refactors with scalable, production-grade deployments.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
react-native10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
winapi10
wp-api10
unicode10
testing9
cmake8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/react-native-windows
May 2019 - Sep 2021
A framework for building native Windows apps with React.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 38 commits, 78 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yichen contributed to the React Native Windows project by addressing unicode conversion issues, removing legacy code, and improving build processes. They refactored unicode handling, replacing older Facebook code with standard Windows functions, and added tests for Unicode vulnerabilities. Additionally, the user fixed x86 CMake builds, added unit tests for the JSI, and introduced a MemoryMappedBuffer, indicating work across the platform.
dotnetreactuwpxboxwindows
hansenyy/react-native-windows
May 2019 - Sep 2021
A framework for building native Windows apps with React.
Contributions:245 pushes, 179 branches in 2 years 5 months
reactwindowsreact-nativeframeworkwindows-native
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