Yuan Gao
Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYuan Gao is a Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with 14 years of experience building production systems for computational advertising, marketplace design, bidding, and pricing. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington and combines rigorous optimization and statistical learning expertise with hands-on engineering to drive ad-serving and auction infrastructure. Over a decade at LinkedIn he progressed through engineering and staff levels, shaping large-scale ML-driven monetization products in the Bay Area. Colleagues rely on him for translating mathematical models into robust, scalable services that meet real-world latency and fairness constraints. Behind the scenes he bridges research and product, often focusing on deployable, interpretable solutions rather than purely theoretical work.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Applied Mathematics, PhD Applied Mathematics at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics at Tongji UniversityExchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (10)
q-learning9
gymnasium9
machine-learning8
reinforcement-learning8
deep-learning7
tensorflow4
ghc3
servant3
haskell2
vim2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gaoyuan/Bayes_Ball_Algorithm
Oct 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
gaoyuan/website
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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