Yong Mao is a seasoned engineering leader with 10 years of experience designing and shipping highly scalable, highly available backend systems and large-scale web applications across Google, Twitter, PayPal, Groupon, and Firebase. He combines hands-on full‑stack expertise—spanning server, web/API, and iOS client layers—with a strong focus on clean architecture, maintainable code, and production-grade system design. At Google he has led i18n and localization infrastructure efforts, building crowdsourced data collection and translation pipelines for NLP/NLG workloads that support global productization. Previously he drove critical high‑traffic services at Twitter (URL infrastructure and mobile sign-in) and modernized payment and logging systems at PayPal, demonstrating deep experience in distributed systems and operational reliability. Based in Millbrae, CA, he pairs advanced academic training in computer science with a practical talent for turning complex requirements into robust, scalable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
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