Yihua Lou is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building ML, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure at scale, currently contributing to Google’s TPU and LLM efforts. He has a strong background in search and Assistant NLP from a long tenure at Google and helped shape serving infra and cloud platform features at Modular. Comfortable across backend systems and mobile ads platforms, Lou combines production-grade engineering with practical ML insight. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core logic and UI math input for the popular Refined Storage Minecraft mod, showing a knack for pragmatic, user-facing backend work. Based in West Covina, CA, he holds a CS degree from UIUC and prefers to be addressed by his last name, Lou.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hillsborough High School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Yihua primarily contributed to the refinement and expansion of the core logic of the Refined Storage mod, which is a Java-based mod for Minecraft. Their work included adding support for mathematical input within the user interface, improving the model rendering, and resolving porting issues. They also added the functionality to evaluate input equations and included integration with the item and fluid amounts screens, while also testing the new functionalities.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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