Yu Peng
Sr Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Peng is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable hybrid cloud and data infrastructure, currently at Databricks after a stint as CTO of a stealth Web3 exchange. He has led global teams of 50+ engineers and driven data platforms from 1PB to 100PB while enabling Kubernetes-based infrastructure for millions of simulation runs per day. An ACM/ICPC World Finalist and PhD-trained algorithm designer, he brings deep algorithmic rigor to production systems and contributed influential bioinformatics work (IDBA-UD) recognized with a Test-of-Time award. Based in Fremont, CA, Yu blends hands-on technical leadership with hiring and operational excellence across cross-timezone teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science at Xiamen University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (26)
apache-spark10
spark10
python10
r10
big-data10
hadoop10
apache10
jdbc10
analytics10
large-scale10
java10
scala10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
loneknightpy/idba
Jun 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 6 months
loneknightpy/spark
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:34 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
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