Yihong Yang
Data Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYihong Yang is a data engineer with eight years of experience building large-scale data pipelines, warehouses, and real-time streaming systems using Java, Python, Spark, Flink, Cassandra and AWS, currently working at OpenAI in the San Francisco Bay Area. He progressed through senior and staff engineering roles at Facebook/Meta and briefly led a team as Data Engineering Manager to deliver a state-of-the-art age prediction model. His background includes deploying Kafka+Flink pipelines handling ~10k RPS and processing half-terabyte batch jobs with Spark, reflecting strong end-to-end production experience. Prior to data engineering he applied high-performance computing and signal processing to multi-terabyte seismic imaging projects, bringing a rare combination of geophysics, research-grade algorithm design, and production data engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and consistently bridges deep academic rigor with pragmatic, scalable system delivery.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Materials Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Materials Science at Nankai UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Oklahoma State University
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
kaenyyh/Insight_project_2018b
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:55 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
kaenyyh/2018_Insight_DE_project
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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