You Wang
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYou Wang is a software engineer with a Ph.D. in Networking from Tsinghua University and a decade of experience building production-grade networking systems. Currently at Meta, he previously spent several years at the Open Networking Foundation and ON.Lab contributing to flagship open-source projects like ONOS, Trellis, CORD, and Stratum, focusing on backend stability, performance optimizations, and secure REST APIs. His research background in IPv4/IPv6 transition, IP source address validation, mobility and inter-domain routing informs pragmatic designs for scalable, software-defined networks. Known for quietly improving system reliability—tuning leader election timeouts and fixing topology/port regressions—he blends deep protocol expertise with hands-on engineering in large-scale network OS projects. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings both academic rigor and production experience to challenging networking problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Networking, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Networking at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
management10
net10
javas10
manage10
networkmanager10
java10
performance-optimization9
user-authentication9
distributed-systems9
rest-api9
authentication9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opennetworkinglab/onos
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Open Network Operating System
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:You primarily contributed to backend functionality within the ONOS (Open Network Operating System) repository. Their work involved fixing bugs related to topology updates and port up delays, optimizing performance, and enhancing security by adding authentication to REST APIs. The user also made changes to configurations, such as increasing the leadership election timeout, suggesting familiarity with the core system's internal workings and stability considerations. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the system's reliability and security.
ospfopenflowbazeloperating-systemnfv
opencord/cord-tester
Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:98 commits in 2 years 4 months
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