Software Engineer/Leader, ex Linkedin/Box/Google/Vmware/Citrix, with over 20 years of professional experience
Cupertino, California
Box
Engineer
November 2013 to February 2016
Los Altos, CA
VMware
InnoLab Innovator
February 2013 to November 2013
Palo Alto, CA
Launch Lead Engineer
August 2011 to February 2013
Mountain View, CA
Citrix Systems
Software Engineer - Principal Software Engineer/Solution Architect
January 1999 to August 2011
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Self-employed
Sabbatical
Sr. Staff Engineer/Manager
February 2016 to July 2020
Mountain View, CA
Created a new way to create and update fully functioning unit tests with minimal developer input (PHP). It improves developer productivity dramatically. Open sourced the project (testscribe.com). Prototyped a Scala version to demonstrate that the technique is language agnostic. Spoke at local developer events.Leading the design of the next generation of the test infrastructure by leveraging docker... Created a new way to create and update fully functioning unit tests with minimal developer input (PHP). It improves developer productivity dramatically. Open sourced the project (testscribe.com). Prototyped a Scala version to demonstrate that the technique is language agnostic. Spoke at local developer events.Leading the design of the next generation of the test infrastructure by leveraging docker containers, AWS, Open Stack. The new design is more flexible, scalable, fault tolerant, supports hybrid cloud and offers better isolation among tenants. (Python, PHP, Puppet, Packer, Jenkins)Created common cryptography libraries. Improved the reliability and maintainability of the critical authentication infrastructure. Established secure coding standards. (PHP Linux)
What company does Ray Yang work for?
Ray Yang works for Box
What is Ray Yang's role at Box?
Ray Yang is Engineer
What industry does Ray Yang work in?
Ray Yang works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are Ray Yang's colleagues?
Ray Yang's colleagues are Kiryl Yesipau, Joe Gillotti, Yang Zhou, Hong Zhang, Amy Slawson, Komal C., Chen Fang, James Clarke, Juanyan Li, and Bingyu Li
📖 Summary
Engineer @ Box Created a new way to create and update fully functioning unit tests with minimal developer input (PHP). It improves developer productivity dramatically. Open sourced the project (testscribe.com). Prototyped a Scala version to demonstrate that the technique is language agnostic. Spoke at local developer events.Leading the design of the next generation of the test infrastructure by leveraging docker containers, AWS, Open Stack. The new design is more flexible, scalable, fault tolerant, supports hybrid cloud and offers better isolation among tenants. (Python, PHP, Puppet, Packer, Jenkins)Created common cryptography libraries. Improved the reliability and maintainability of the critical authentication infrastructure. Established secure coding standards. (PHP Linux) From November 2013 to February 2016 (2 years 4 months) Los Altos, CAInnoLab Innovator @ VMware A small independent "startup group" incubated within VMWware CTO office. Developed a new browser as a service technology to improve enterprise security. Worked on all aspects of the product: Javascript on the client, protocol design, broker service (Python using twisted framework), modification of Chromium browser (C++), HTML/HTTP standard research, Squid proxy. From February 2013 to November 2013 (10 months) Palo Alto, CALaunch Lead Engineer @ Google Advised teams across Google on application architecture, with focus on reliability, scalability, manageability and efficient use of the shared infrastructure.Example projects:• Google Maps for mobile in 3D• Google+ Sign In • Google Shopping Shortlist (social shopping)• Search infrastructure improvement which reduces capacity requirement per query by 25%• Google Translate Customization• Norad Santa Tracker 2011. The site recorded 1.6 million queries per second. From August 2011 to February 2013 (1 year 7 months) Mountain View, CASoftware Engineer - Principal Software Engineer/Solution Architect @ Citrix Systems Redesigned Citrix ICA display protocol. Improved the remote display protocol’s efficiency by 70% ( c, c++). Received two patents.Developed Citrix XenApp ( formerly known as Metaframe, Presentation Server), an application virtualization, management product. http://www.citrix.com/xenapp (windows, c, c++)Worked on windows kernel driver development, server farm scalability (thousands of servers), single server scalability, SDK, administration console, licensing, clients, client platform abstraction layer etc.Lead a team of over 10 developers for a web based enterprise portal product. (.net)Worked on Citrix Secure Gateway and Access Gateway, SSL VPN products. Designed an asynchronous processing engine as an Apache web server module. http://www.citrix.com/accessgateway. Reduced the average latency by half and allowed the product to reach 1000 concurrent user goal. ( c on windows )Built relationships and joint solutions with partners globally.Promoted Citrix technology to developers. Researched technology trend, product ideas and solutions.Developed the Citrix iPhone ( objective c ) and Android Client ( java ). From January 1999 to August 2011 (12 years 8 months) Ft. Lauderdale, FLSabbatical @ Self-employed Reset, recharge, learn, spend more time with family and friends. Sr. Staff Engineer/Manager @ LinkedIn 2019 - present Manager/Tech leadopen-source streaming processing framework Samza http://samza.apache.org/2016- 2019Offline Data infrastructure team. Hadoop related development.Tech lead for the open-source workflow manager Azkaban https://github.com/azkaban/azkabanTech lead for scaling YARN to meet Linkedin's large scaling challenge From February 2016 to July 2020 (4 years 6 months) Mountain View, CA
Introversion (I), Sensing (S), Thinking (T), Perceiving (P)
4 year(s), 4 month(s)
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