Zhihao Yuan
R&D Engineer Software at Broadcom Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhihao Yuan is an R&D software engineer with 15 years of experience building portable, high-performance C++ systems and making C++ code more portable across platforms. Based in Los Angeles, he currently develops at Broadcom after senior HPC and research roles that span academia and industry, bringing deep experience in performance-sensitive and systems-level software. An active open-source contributor, he has improved usability and robustness in widely used projects such as a modern C++ argparse library and the Falcon Python web framework, focusing on API design, error handling, and clean refactors. His background in theoretical computer science and a master's in CS inform a pragmatic, correctness-first approach to engineering, and his GitHub motto hints at a measured confidence and humility in craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Theoretical Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Theoretical Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (23)
c-language10
python10
apidoc10
http10
webpages10
web-content10
standard-library10
api10
rest10
c-library10
common-library10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
testing9
catch29
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
p-ranav/argparse
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Argument Parser for Modern C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 28 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Zhihao primarily focused on enhancing the argument parser library. Their contributions include adding stream insertion functionality for printing help messages, deprecating the `print_help()` function in favor of `cout << program`, and removing an undocumented macro. Additionally, the user introduced the capability to bind extra arguments to actions and refactored the code to improve the overall structure and maintainability of the argument parser.
mit-licensecppargparseargument-parsergetopt
falconry/falcon
Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with an emphasis on reliability and performance at scale.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Zhihao primarily focused on enhancing the Falcon framework's API functionality. Their contributions involved enforcing route normalization, adding a default responder for the OPTIONS method, and implementing a catch-all route. They also refactored code related to client acceptance headers and introduced the HTTPNotAcceptable exception. These changes collectively improved the framework's robustness, API design, and error handling.
pythonmagicdata-planemicroservicecorrectness
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