Yingdi Yu
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolYingdi Yu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Menlo Park with 13 years of experience specializing in payments, DNS, networking, and security. At Meta since 2016, she focuses on building secure, scalable networked systems and operational tooling. Her PhD-level research background and early internships at VeriSign inform a strong blend of academic rigor and production engineering. She also contributes to open-source networking research—enhancing security in the widely used ndnSIM NS-3 NDN simulator by adding configuration-based validators and improving trust and routing behaviors. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic security design that cleanly bridges simulation, protocol, and real-world deployment concerns.
13 years of coding experience
University of California, Los AngelesBachelor Electronic Engineering, Bachelor Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github contributions (5)
named-data-ndnSIM/ndnSIM
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
ndnSIM: NS-3 based NDN simulator
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:6 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yingdi primarily focused on enhancing the security aspects of the `ndnSIM` project, an NS-3 based NDN simulator. Their contributions involved implementing a configuration-based validator and addressing compilation issues related to API changes in the `ValidatorConfig`. Furthermore, the user worked on separating trust models for `/localhost` and `/localhop` RIB management commands and supporting wildcards in the NFD configuration, significantly impacting the security posture of the simulation environment. The user also implemented changes to publish routable prefixes.
simulatorsimulationndnns-3
named-data/ChronoChat
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
A simple but interesting demo to visualize how ChronoSync library works
Contributions:209 commits in 1 year 4 months
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