Bill Yang
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Yang is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with 14 years of experience building full-stack systems and production machine learning at scale. At Meta he leads early-stage ranking model training and inference, drives LLM foundational work from pretraining to distillation and fine-tuning, and champions content understanding and multi-model cotraining for recommendation systems. He blends deep ML research and engineering execution with product-minded design, serving as Team Engineering Excellence Lead to improve delivery and quality across teams. Bill's background includes internships at Facebook and AWS and a strong academic foundation from UT Austin (BS and MS in Computer Science, Turing Scholar), which informs his practical yet research-aware approach. An often-overlooked strength is his end-to-end ownership: he moves models from dataset generation and prompt engineering all the way to ranking and generation in production.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (27)
rust8
mercurial8
wysiwyg8
browser8
servo7
webbrowser7
javascript7
mozilla-firefox7
localization7
tinymce7
react6
firefox6
internationalization6
webengine6
text-editor6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
analyst74/aichallenge-ants
Nov 2011 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 5 years 2 months
analyst74/xigua-wallet-public
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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