Yitao Huang
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYitao 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
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of MichiganMiddle School & High School Diploma, Middle School & High School Diploma at Nanjing Foreign Language School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
hbase8
dataframe8
spark-sql7
apache-spark4
sql3
Programming languages (1)
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
dataframehbasespark-sql
Huawei-Spark/Backup-Repo
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
The released version of Astro(Spark SQL on HBase) has been moved to:
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 day
hbasesql
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