Yiyang Chen
Software Dev Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiyang Chen is a software development engineer with eight years of experience focused on Linux kernel internals, cloud-native platforms, and system stability. Currently at Amazon and AWS in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings practical production experience in building resilient infrastructure and services. His academic background spans advanced computer science degrees from USC and National Taiwan University, complementing hands-on internships that shaped his systems and embedded software skills. Colleagues rely on him for debugging complex kernel and cloud interactions and for prioritizing reliability under real-world load. He combines a research-informed perspective with pragmatic engineering, frequently bridging low-level systems work and higher-level cloud operations. Outside of work he continues exploring kernel and cloud-native projects, signaling a sustained commitment to infrastructure robustness.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science Data Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Minor: Statistics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Minor: Statistics at Tunghai University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (69)
kvm10
checkpoint10
security10
vms10
isolation10
cri-o10
k8s10
podman10
firecracker10
qemu10
containerd10
virtualization10
rust10
kubernetes10
container10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cyyzero/cyyzero.github.io
Jul 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch, 7 issues in 6 years 4 months
cyyzero/tlpi
Oct 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:117 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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