Yu Zheng
Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYu Zheng is an experienced full-stack software engineer and former R&D leader with 11+ years building backend systems and mobile clients across languages from Java and Scala to Swift, Objective‑C, C/C++ and Python. Currently at Google after senior engineering roles at LinkedIn and a decade of technical leadership at Cadence, he brings deep expertise in timing, signal integrity and delay analysis applied to complex, performance-critical systems. He contributes to notable open-source infrastructure like LinkedIn's rest.li, improving schema translation and serialization robustness—work that reflects a focus on reliable data handling at scale. A Columbia Ph.D. in electrical engineering with roots in microelectronics from Peking University, he combines rigorous research training with hands-on production engineering and a track record of shipping cross-platform features and backend migrations.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Microelectronics, M.S., Microelectronics at Peking UniversityPh.D., Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
restful10
data-serialization10
rest10
java10
serialization10
testing8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/rest.li
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yu primarily focused on enhancing the `rest.li` framework, addressing the core logic related to data serialization and schema translation. Their contributions include adding default null values to translated union aliased members and escaping keywords in inline schema namespaces, which improves the framework's robustness and data handling. Additionally, the user worked on encoding and parsing PDL schemas, fixing bugs related to nested properties and empty datamap values within the PDL format.
asynchronous
yuzheng21/codecon
Jul 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:104 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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