Yongzhou Gu
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYongzhou Gu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale distributed and fault-tolerant systems, currently contributing to Google’s Ads Display Formats team in New York. He has a strong data infrastructure background from multiple roles at Yelp, where he implemented Flink connectors, Spark ETL services, and led a MySQL source connector project from scratch. Yongzhou pairs rigorous academic training—a BS in Computer Science and a math minor from UIUC and an MEng from Cornell—with hands-on experience across streaming, schema evolution, Kafka tooling, and performance work in parallel and trading systems. He’s comfortable shipping production systems that monetize content and support data science workflows, and he brings a knack for turning complex data pipeline requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions. An often-overlooked strength is his breadth across low-latency parallel computing and high-throughput data engineering, enabling him to optimize both algorithmic performance and system reliability.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 4.02/4.0, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 4.02/4.0 at Cornell UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
sink7
python-client7
python6
slot5
kafka5
apache-kafka5
faust5
proxy4
apache4
producer3
mongodb3
nodejs3
ios2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Recipepad/RecipePad-Frontend
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:34 commits in 1 month
YZG112358/CGAL_tools
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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