Austin Yuan
Software Engineer L4 at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Yuan is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience building large-scale compliance and developer-facing systems at Google from San Francisco. He specializes in open-source license and contributor compliance, having led zero-downtime migrations (Bigtable to Spanner), built high-throughput GitHub checks scanning 50k PRs/week, and shipped tools that scan hundreds of thousands of files for license text. His work blends backend systems, data pipelines, and unified web frontends to turn audit-heavy legal requirements into automated, reliable workflows—evident in projects that tracked commercial licenses for ~8,000 packages and automated data wipeouts for 100k+ users. Known for eliminating tech debt and reducing reviewer toil, he pairs strong implementation skills with cross-team coordination among engineers and legal owners. An NLP tutor-turned-engineer, he brings both academic rigor (UC Santa Cruz, 3.81 GPA) and practical automation experience to compliance engineering challenges.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (38)
discord10
discord-js10
rsa10
sentiment-analysis10
discord-bot10
multiple-accounts10
trading9
javascript9
sqlite9
nodejs9
pip8
react8
reverse8
api8
finance8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ajyuan/Natural-Language-Search-Engine
Feb 2019 - May 2020
A project that reads stories and answers questions about stories it has read
Contributions:8 PRs, 63 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 2 months
javascript
ajyuan/austinyuan.com
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
https://austinyuan.com
Contributions:6 PRs, 85 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
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