Ying Xiong
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYing Xiong is a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 12 years building high-impact ML and computer vision systems across Google, Databricks, Dropbox, and Apple. She combines deep algorithmic expertise in C/C++ and Python with hands-on experience deploying neural models and distributed data platforms to drive revenue-generating ad products and customer-facing features like document scanning. As a tech lead and manager she’s scaled teams and automated workflows for large-scale advertising systems that contribute billions in annual revenue, while also delivering tangible UX gains such as a 20% reduction in search time at Dropbox. Her background includes a Ph.D. in computer vision from Harvard and early research in structure-from-motion and robust estimation, which informs practical solutions to noisy, real-world data problems. Colleagues know her for blending rigorous research instincts with production-grade engineering and for fostering team learning through regular tech talks.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Computer Vision), Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Computer Vision) at Harvard UniversityB.E., Electronic Engineering, B.E., Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
apache-spark10
opencv10
observability10
python10
evaluation10
image-processing10
langchain10
data-science10
statistics10
open-source10
machine-learning10
model-management10
mlflow10
ml10
prompt-engineering10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yxiong/yxiong.github.io
May 2023 - May 2026
My github pages.
Contributions:2 PRs, 345 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
yxiong/xy_python_utils
Jan 2015 - Nov 2025
Contributions:68 pushes, 22 branches, 2 comments in 11 years
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