Jerry Yang
Software Architect
Cell: (917) 582-2826 | [email protected] | https://resume.chenyang.us/
Professional Summary
Software Architect with 20+ years of experience delivering high-scale platforms at Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, and Yahoo! — spanning cloud, on-premise, and embedded systems with vendor-agnostic designs. Led AI and machine learning initiatives including automated model deployment, intelligent manufacturing workflows, and autonomous reasoning systems that orchestrate complex multi-step operations.
Work Experience
Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer / Technical Lead, Apple Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA — May 2019 - Present
Architected infrastructure for a 30+ engineer manufacturing organization.
- Quality sampling engine processing millions of daily inspections (Go, Lua, Redis)
- Machine learning platform automating model deployment to factories
- MSI Cloud Engineering initiative — migrating manufacturing infrastructure to cloud vendors, including adoption of Snowflake for cross-team data accessibility and event-driven pipelines with Kafka and Redis (Java, Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, AWS, Kubernetes)
- Embedded systems conversion from iOS to Go enabling bi-directional production line communication at remote factories (Go, Bash, Python, PowerShell, mDNS, IPv6)
- MSI AI initiative (Python, Go, Bash)
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Services, Roblox Corp.
San Mateo, CA — Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributed to platform infrastructure supporting 100M+ monthly active users. Worked on service reliability and .NET Core migration for backend infrastructure services.
Principal Software Engineer, Data Services and Solutions, eBay Inc.
Campbell, CA — Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Architected a unified data query layer using Apache Calcite that abstracted access across 7+ heterogeneous data stores (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase, and more), eliminating the need for teams to write store-specific queries. Deployed on Kubernetes, the service became eBay's standard interface for cross-platform data access.
Staff Software Engineer, Smart Sourcing, @WalmartLabs
San Bruno, CA — Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
Built the sourcing optimization engine for Walmart.com's supply chain, reducing fulfillment costs by algorithmically selecting optimal distribution centers for each order. Delivered real-time dashboards and alerting that gave supply chain operators visibility into sourcing decisions across thousands of daily shipments.
Software Engineer, Addepar
Mountain View, CA — Sep 2013 - Jun 2014
Data team and later Architecture team. Parallelized and optimized services to perform 10x better with optimizations.
Staff Software Engineer, Smart Pricing, @WalmartLabs
San Bruno, CA — Jul 2012 - Sep 2013
Designed the big data infrastructure powering daily pricing strategy for Walmart's entire retail and e-commerce catalog. Built APIs and dashboards enabling pricing analysts to compute and deploy competitive pricing decisions across millions of SKUs. Developed in Java using Spring, Hibernate, Hive, Cassandra, Solr, and LevelDB.
Software Development Engineer, Search Experience, Amazon.com
Seattle, WA — May 2011 - Jul 2012
Shipped customer-facing features on Amazon's search page, delivering sub-200ms results across hundreds of millions of daily queries. Launched Visually Similar search, enabling image-based product discovery. Led the Mason-to-Java migration for search rendering, improving page performance and developer velocity. Built Amazon's mobile search experience and implemented multi-language search with CJK tokenization via Lucene.
Software Development Engineer II, Microsoft Corp.
Redmond, WA — Aug 2008 - Apr 2011
Office Mobile Shared Services. Ported Microsoft OneNote to Symbian, expanding Office Mobile's reach to Nokia's global user base. Built in C++ with RVCT compiler and QML.
Mobile Advertising. Created an end-to-end automated test framework for iPhone ad components, reducing manual QA cycles and accelerating release cadence. Designed and stood up the build lab infrastructure for continuous verification across device and simulator.
Technical Yahoo!, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Yahoo! Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA — Jul 2007 - Jul 2008
Built the ad keyword canonicalization service (C++) powering targeting across 20+ international markets at 10,000 QPS.
Technical Yahoo! (Intern), Yahoo! Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA — Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
Built a multilingual test framework (C++) for Yahoo! Search's semantic library covering CJK and European languages.
Advisory Roles
Member, In-Memory Databases Product Advisory Council, Amazon Web Services
2024 – 2025
Appointed by AWS to provide product direction and industry feedback on in-memory database services.