Summary
Yung-jen Cheng is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building large-scale, fault-tolerant data infrastructure at Google where he develops Paxos-based distributed systems and exactly-once streaming guarantees for Ads. He began his career designing USB3 drivers and validating ASIC hardware, work that shipped in Intel chipsets and passed WHQL certification, giving him deep systems and low-level expertise. Holding a Master’s in Computational Science from Harvard and dual degrees in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering from National Taiwan University, he blends rigorous academic training with practical production engineering. Known for solving resource isolation and multi-datacenter replication challenges, he brings a strong track record of delivering reliable, byte-equivalent data replication and prioritized service resource control.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University
Master's degree, Computational Science, Master's degree, Computational Science at Harvard University
Chinese, English, Japanese