Yang Zhang
Founder Game Developer at YMGS
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Zhang is a founder and indie game developer based in Seattle with 13 years of software engineering experience across cloud, games, and databases. He built and led YMGS to create gameplay-first experiences while previously contributing as an SDE II at AWS and Amazon Games, applying large-scale systems expertise to consumer products. His technical roots include Carnegie Mellon graduate training in computational data science and hands-on work on Peloton (a notable self-driving DBMS) where he added C++ and UDFs, showing deeper knowledge of database internals and query processing. Comfortable spanning backend infrastructure to game production, he combines systems-level rigor with creative product instincts and a habit of turning research-grade tooling into shipping features.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computational Data Science, Master’s Degree Computational Data Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
French, English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
plpgsql10
pgsql10
psql10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
pg10
dbms9
dbm9
database9
databases9
sql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-db/peloton
Apr 2016 - May 2016
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yang's commits primarily involve modifications to the Hyadapt benchmark within the Peloton database system. They added and modified C++ code, including header and source files related to workload execution and predicate creation. Further contributions include the addition of new UDF functions, both in C and PL/pgSQL, demonstrating an understanding of database internals and query processing. These UDFs provide additional string and number manipulation and manipulation functionality.
database-managementdatabasedbms
YangMann/drone-slam
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 6 days
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