Yu Yang
Engineering Manager at Verkada
California, United States
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Top SchoolYu Yang is an engineering manager based in California with over a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems, real-time stream processing, and data ingestion platforms. He led the design and launch of Pinterest’s Flink-based streaming platform and a data transportation pipeline that moves over a trillion messages daily, and he built DoctorKafka to provide Kafka-as-a-service with >99.99% availability. Prior to Pinterest he helped scale monitoring and diagnostics for Microsoft Azure, and his Ph.D. research produced tools for uncovering concurrency bugs via model checking and dynamic verification. Known for blending deep research rigor with production-grade automation, he mentors technical leaders and favors pragmatic solutions that bridge compliance, reliability, and developer velocity.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Nanjing UniversityThe University of UtahM.E., M.E. at Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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21answers
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Github Skills (36)
python10
big-data10
kafka10
apache10
java10
sink10
scala10
sql10
apache-kafka10
kafka-cluster10
kafka-consumer10
apache-flink9
uploading9
kafka-connect9
persistence9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yuyang08/yuyang08.github.io
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years
yuyang08/flink
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Apache Flink
Contributions:15 pushes in 2 months
flinkapachebig-dataapache-flinkjava
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