Cheng-zhen Yang
Software Engineer at Google
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolCheng-zhen Yang is a backend-focused software engineer with nine years of experience designing high-performance systems, particularly in Go, gRPC, and observability tooling. He has driven production improvements at companies from startups to large platforms—uplifting observability with OpenTelemetry at mx51 and building protocol-driven SDKs and integration tests for decentralized systems at Sylo. Cheng-zhen combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with a knack for automation, having saved 100+ development hours by building in-house tooling and streamlined S3/streaming pipelines early in his career. He’s recently worked at TikTok and is currently affiliated with Google, bringing experience in multi-tenant architectures, RBAC/SSO integrations, and scalable file processing. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS) and data stores, he also surfaces non-obvious wins like a 10x GraphQL introspection speedup via targeted caching. Based in Sydney and active in practical R&D, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on delivery in observability and backend platforms.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Student, Student at Auckland Grammar SchoolBachelor of Engineering (Honours), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Software Engineering at University of Auckland
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (150)
sctp10
opentelemetry10
jpa-hibernate10
streaming10
webcam10
audio10
voip10
opentelemetry-go10
go10
webrtc10
datachannel10
ice10
logging10
rtp10
mongoose9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
scorpionknifes/opentelemetry-go-contrib
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Collection of extensions for OpenTelemetry-Go.
Contributions:73 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year
NZMSA/2021-Phase-2
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:73 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 months
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