Summary
Zhengtang Yang is a software engineer with eight years of experience spanning systems, big data, and backend development, currently working on Apple GPU functional model validation. A fifth-year Ph.D. student turned MS candidate at UT Austin with a B.Eng. from Shanghai Jiao Tong, he pairs research-grade thinking with production engineering from roles at ByteDance, Synopsys, Cisco, Qumulo, and TACC. He built and maintained MsPass, a parallel processing framework for seismology, demonstrating expertise in high-performance, distributed processing beyond typical web services. Comfortable in compiler back-ends and large-scale stream data pipelines, he brings a strong systems-first approach to debugging and performance optimization. Based in Austin, he’s actively transitioning academic rigor into impactful software engineering at scale.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University