Zhenyu Yang
Software Engineer at Facebook
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhenyu Yang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems across AWS, Azure, and Facebook. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering with research focus on cloud networking and security, and brings four years of hands-on experience in Java/Spring/MySQL and additional C++/C# systems work. At Microsoft Azure and AWS he helped design next-generation virtual networking and security services, and at Facebook he continues to apply that expertise to production-scale infrastructure. He’s an active contributor to the Presto project, enhancing Kerberos-based authentication and hardening server-to-server security for a widely used distributed SQL engine. Colleagues know him for blending deep protocol-level security knowledge with pragmatic engineering that scales.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ph.D, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (18)
kerberos10
authentication10
user-authentication10
java10
security10
javas10
sql10
query-engine10
presto10
sql-query9
big-data9
rest-api8
distributed-database8
distributed-systems8
api-rest8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prestodb/presto
Apr 2015 - May 2016
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhenyu primarily focused on enhancing security and authentication within the Presto query engine. Their contributions included adding client authentication support, specifically integrating Kerberos for secure communication. Furthermore, the user addressed and corrected Kerberos service principal formats and improved logging of authentication errors for more effective debugging. This work directly supports the security and robustness of server-to-server communication and client interactions within Presto.
distributed-sqlquerybigdataquery-enginesql
zhenyuy-fb/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Dec 2018
YADR - The best vim,git,zsh plugins and the cleanest vimrc you've ever seen
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
zshrcvimeverzsh-pluginsneovim
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