Ying Ye
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYing Ye is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in real-time and general-purpose OS design, hypervisor/kernel resource management, and embedded virtualization for multicore platforms, with a strong focus on autonomous driving systems. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and has led firmware and secure-boot efforts at Zoox, delivering vehicle-wide UDS/DoIP bootloader and diagnostic frameworks while also managing firmware security and safety verification. At Google she optimized boot and encryption subsystems for Nest devices, and at Qualcomm she influenced DSP architecture and cache algorithms—demonstrating a rare blend of hardware-aware systems design and practical firmware shipping. Based in San Jose, she bridges research and production, often bringing academic techniques (e.g., cache partitioning and QoS resource management) into automotive and consumer products. A hands-on contributor to OS kernel and hypervisor development, she combines deep low-level expertise with team leadership across safety-critical embedded platforms.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Tongji UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Boston University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
maintenance5
java4
sdk4
maintenance-mode3
avs3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chrisyy/RTV
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
chrisyy/coloris
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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