Yali Yang
Senior Software Engineer, Tapestry at X, The Moonshot Factory
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYali Yang is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale infrastructure at Google, Pure Storage, and now X’s Moonshot Factory on the Tapestry electric grid initiative. She combines deep technical chops from Carnegie Mellon with strategic leadership training from Stanford GSB LEAD to move from execution toward high-impact, cross-functional leadership. Known for quiet, empathetic leadership, she excels at 0→1 problem solving, mentoring engineers, and creating high-trust teams that balance speed with quality. Her background spans distributed systems and storage at hyperscale, and she’s comfortable translating technical complexity into user and business impact. Based in Sunnyvale, she’s motivated by using technology as a force for good and thrives in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMaster's degree, Electrical and computer engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (38)
fiddler7
mobile-application7
ratchet7
woff6
html6
font-face6
nodejs6
css6
hosts6
javascript6
truetype5
proxy5
debugging5
opentype4
eot4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Yilene/yilene.github.io
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Yilene/funny
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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