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
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor's degree, Information Security, Bachelor's degree, Information Security at Shanghai Jiao Tong University