Yong Ni
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead Manager at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYong Ni is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead Manager based in San Jose with nine years of focused experience in driving large-scale infrastructure and CI/CD improvements at major tech companies. Currently leading engineering efforts at Google, he brings a deep background from a long tenure at Cisco where he evolved into technical leadership across complex networking and systems projects. His open-source contributions include enhancing the CI/CD and interop testing pipelines for the widely used grpc project, improving cross-language matrix testing and containerized deployments. Trained initially in biochemistry at Fudan and later in computer networks at USC, Yong combines analytical rigor with systems thinking to bridge research-grade discipline and production engineering. Known for refactoring legacy automation and introducing scalable testing patterns, he excels at turning brittle release processes into reliable, repeatable workflows.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Network, Masters, Computer Network at University of Southern CaliforniaThe High School Affiliated to Renmin University of ChinaBachelor's, Biochemistry, Bachelor's, Biochemistry at Fudan University
Github Skills (10)
testing10
automation10
bash10
automations10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
grpc10
gcp10
python9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:35 commits, 30 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yong primarily contributed to the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure of the gRPC project. Their work involved creating and modifying scripts related to interop testing, specifically for Linux environments. The user refactored existing CI jobs and introduced new scripts to support matrix testing across different gRPC releases and languages, incorporating Docker for containerization and cloud-based deployment. These changes likely enhanced the project's testing capabilities and release process.
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
yongni/grpc
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:84 pushes, 12 branches, 1 comment in 7 months
objective-ccpppythonc-nodenode-js
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