Yongheng Chen
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYongheng Chen is a software engineer with a decade of experience blending research-grade rigor and production engineering, currently working on private LLMs at Google DeepMind while also contributing to C++/Rust interop at Google. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and began his career with multiple Google internships focused on fuzzing, RPC hardening, and embedded systems for Google Nest. Comfortable across low-level systems and ML stacks, he repeatedly ships tooling and frameworks that improve safety and reliability in complex codebases. An active CTF competitor under the handle r3kapig, he brings a hacker’s mindset to debugging and security-driven feature design. Based in Mountain View, he combines academic depth with hands-on implementation experience in large-scale, safety-sensitive environments.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Nanjing University
Github Skills (127)
abstract-syntax-tree10
coverage10
javascript-engine10
cpp10
crypto10
solidity10
grammars10
reverse10
ctf10
grammar10
parsing10
parser-generator10
ethereum10
parse10
blockchain10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Changochen/My_CTF_Challenge
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
s3team/Squirrel
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 66 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 8 months
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