Xudong Yang
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXudong Yang is a seasoned Software Engineer with 15 years of experience based in New York, currently at Google where he has worked on Google Drive offline features, the Drive Android API, public transit routing for Maps, and Bazel’s external dependency handling. He brings deep expertise in backend and build engineering, evidenced by meaningful contributions to the core Bazel build system and its continuous-integration tooling for a widely used open-source project. Xudong combines systems-level thinking with practical DevOps experience—refactoring dependency workflows, streamlining repository mappings, and stabilizing CI pipelines to keep large-scale builds and releases running smoothly. A Tsinghua-trained computer scientist, he’s equally comfortable navigating mobile platform APIs and complex build infrastructure, with a track record of shipping durable solutions that bridge developer tooling and end-user features.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (19)
dependency-management10
buildkite10
git-repository10
build-system10
cicd10
starlark10
repo-management10
bazel10
management10
buildkit10
repository-pattern10
github-ci9
python9
githubaction-workflow9
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel
May 2020 - Jan 2023
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:
Backend & Build Engineer
Backend & Build EngineerContributions:1129 reviews, 201 commits, 463 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Xudong primarily contributed to the core build system and infrastructure of the Bazel project. Their commits demonstrate expertise in modifying and improving the system's handling of dependencies, particularly concerning the use of module extensions and repository mappings. The contributions include refactoring and streamlining the processes related to the retrieval and integration of external dependencies, in addition to updates to the documentation. The changes involve modifying the command-line options, as well as refactoring the way that the build system works.
build-systembazelcorrectscalablemulti-language
bazelbuild/continuous-integration
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Bazel's Continuous Integration Setup
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:112 reviews, 25 commits, 81 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Xudong primarily focuses on maintaining and modifying the continuous integration setup for Bazel. Their contributions involve disabling and re-enabling downstream projects within the CI pipeline, often due to external issues or dependencies. They also fix annotation issues, add new GitHub Actions to help with managing release issues, and remove or re-enable CI components. This role is crucial for Bazel's CI pipeline's operational efficiency.
bazelcontinuous-integrationbuildkite
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