Darren Yang
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Yang is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building telemetry and log ingestion platforms for Azure infrastructure. He combines a strong academic background from Tsinghua University and GIX with hands-on experience in AI security and computer vision from internships at Baidu and Uisee, where he developed successful adversarial attacks and camera-fusion algorithms. At Microsoft he has progressed from intern to tech lead-level responsibilities, designing scalable ingestion systems that support large-scale telemetry. Darren’s work blends systems engineering and research rigor—he’s comfortable moving from low-level algorithm design to cloud deployment—and has a track record of turning academic ideas into production features. Based in Seattle, he brings cross-cultural experience across US and China research labs and industry teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master of Science and Technology Innovation, Master's degree, Master of Science and Technology Innovation at University of WashingtonMaster’s Degree, Connected Devices, Master’s Degree, Connected Devices at UW's Global Innovation ExchangeMaster's degree, Master of Data Science & Big Data, Master's degree, Master of Data Science & Big Data at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (2)
adversarial-attacks4
microsoft-azure3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thuyangyu/thuyangyu.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2026
Contributions:167 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 4 months
thuyangyu/pipelineCPU
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 13 days
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