Yongming L
Senior Backend Engineer at Spotify
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolYongming L is a Senior Backend Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating highly available distributed systems, currently contributing at Spotify from The Hague. He brings deep expertise in algorithm design, large-scale data management, query processing and indexing, grounded in a PhD focused on massive RDF and graph datasets. Prior roles at AWS and Solar Monkey show a track record of designing resilient cloud services, leading migrations to Google Cloud, improving observability, and shaping CI/CD and hiring practices. Comfortable in Python and Java, he has shipped production features across infrastructure, developer tooling, and user-facing consoles. Colleagues rely on him for postmortems and mentorship, reflecting a blend of research rigor and hands-on operational discipline. An academic background from Eindhoven and Carnegie Mellon underpins a pragmatic approach to making complex data problems performant in production.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Eindhoven University of TechnologyBachelor & Master Computer Science, Bachelor & Master Computer Science at Harbin Institute of TechnologyMaster's Degree Information Networking Athens Program, Master's Degree Information Networking Athens Program at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English, Dutch
Github Skills (48)
lintcode9
gitbook9
django-project9
django9
database8
python8
default-value8
data-structure8
linter8
postgresql8
mysql7
google-cloud7
rocket7
gcloud7
docker7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lgylym/scj
Dec 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 5 months
solarmonkey/checkout
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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