Yipei Wang
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYipei Wang is a seasoned software engineer with 9 years of experience applying machine learning to large-scale production systems, currently driving advertiser- and monetization-focused features at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area. A Carnegie Mellon AI master's graduate, she has led cross-team efforts that optimize ads retrieval and auction systems—reducing resource costs via online two-tower DNNs and deploying model-based resource optimization in production. Her background spans startup recommendation systems and academic research on distributed ML communication reduction (up to 90% savings), combining strong applied ML with systems and backend engineering. Yipei is also an active open-source contributor to Vitess, adding robust resharding workflows and fixes for horizontal scaling of MySQL, reflecting her expertise in both ML-driven products and resilient distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Learning NanoDegree, Deep Learning NanoDegree at UdacityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science (Machine Learning), Master's degree, Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (8)
work-flow10
workflow-engine10
go10
database-cluster10
sharding10
mysql10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 43 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yipei contributed to the Vitess project by addressing issues related to database clustering and resharding functionality. They fixed errors in the `worker` and `wrangler` packages, specifically addressing cases where tables flags were empty and adding null pointer checks in the `copyschema` function. Additionally, the user implemented a horizontal resharding workflow. This involved creating a phase-based UI and end-to-end tests for the resharding process.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
wangyipei01/vitess
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:96 pushes, 36 branches in 4 months
mysqlhorizontal-scalingsqlvitessclustering
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