Yilin Zhang is a software engineer at Google with 12 years of experience building production-grade systems informed by a deep academic background (PhD and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin and a B.S. from Peking University). Since joining Google in 2015, Yilin has applied research-driven problem solving to product engineering, drawing on prior industry roles at Rocket Fuel and research internships at IBM and Oracle where he improved routing and algorithmic toolchains for complex designs. His background in EDA and incremental algorithms hints at a specialty in optimizing large-scale computational workflows and tooling, turning theoretical approaches into measurable engineering improvements. Based in California, he blends rigorous research instincts with practical software delivery, often focusing on performance and automation that shorten engineering cycles.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical engineering and computer science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical engineering and computer science at Peking University
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