Yimeng Yang
Production Engineer at Facebook
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYimeng Yang is a Production Engineer based in Menlo Park with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale systems, currently working at Facebook. A UC San Diego Computer Engineering graduate, she has strong roots in embedded systems, distributed cache and database reliability, and has shipped backup/restore and autoscaling pipelines for critical infrastructure. Her background includes research roles where she built scalable phylogenetic visualization tools and applied signal-processing and ML to neural data, showing her ability to bridge systems engineering with scientific computing. She’s also led teaching and tooling efforts—automating grading and mentoring students—which reflects a knack for clear communication and reproducible workflows. Notably, early internships contributed to capacity-estimation tooling and migration efforts at enterprise scale, demonstrating practical impact across both research and production environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
tree-viewer10
nmf10
viewer10
hierarchical10
ncbi10
microbiome10
bioinformatics10
phylogeny10
biplot10
qiime10
taxonomy9
visualization9
genomes9
placement9
phylogenetics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ucsd-cse30-f17/pa4-public
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 6 pushes in 9 days
YimengYang/phyloviz
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
Playground
Contributions:3 PRs, 85 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
typescriptphoneticsplayground
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