Yitao Huang

California, United States

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Yitao Huang is a systems-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in low-latency performance optimization and distributed systems. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI working on ChatGPT Search, he previously built game engine systems at Roblox and contributed to Marketplace features at Meta, demonstrating versatility across real-time and large-scale consumer services. Based in California and trained in computer science at the University of Michigan, Yitao blends deep systems thinking with product-aware engineering to squeeze milliseconds out of complex pipelines. He has a track record of shipping production-critical features where performance and scalability are paramount, and often tackles cross-team integration challenges that reveal subtle bottlenecks. Colleagues know him for pragmatic debugging, careful benchmarking, and a tendency to prototype low-overhead solutions that become long-lived infrastructure.

11 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan

Middle & High School Diploma, Middle & High School Diploma at Nanjing Foreign Language School

Physics, Physics at UC Santa Barbara

Chinese, English

Github Skills (10)

hbase8

spark7

sql7

scala7

dataframe7

spark-sql7

presto5

apache2

apache-spark2

big-data1

Programming languages (1)

Scala

Github contributions (3)

Huawei-Spark/Spark-SQL-on-HBase

Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

Native, optimized access to HBase Data through Spark SQL/Dataframe Interfaces

Contributions:21 commits, 45 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months

dataframespark-sqlsqlsparkscala

Huawei-Spark/Backup-Repo

Jul 2015 - Jul 2015

Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 day

dataframesqlspark-sqlsparkscala

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