Yang Zhao
Software Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolYang Zhao is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on cloud infrastructure, currently building scalable systems at Apple in Cupertino. He progressed from an Apple internship to a full engineering role after graduate study at Cornell, bringing strong academic foundations in electrical and computer engineering from Soochow University and the University of Waterloo. Comfortable in large, high-impact engineering organizations, Yang has practical experience across industry settings including Bosch and Apple Cloud Infrastructure. He combines systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation, and his career path suggests a knack for translating research-level training into production-ready cloud services. Notably, his move from internships into a core cloud role at Apple reflects both rapid growth and a focus on reliability and scale.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Soochow University (CN)Undergraduate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Undergraduate, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (28)
caching10
key-value-database10
key-value-store10
nosql10
redis10
key-value10
database10
react8
trello8
vscode8
webapp8
web-application8
algorithm7
git7
ux-design7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
YangZhao71/roboFriends
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 4 days
yang-z-o/valkey
Dec 2025 - Jul 2026
A new project to resume development on the formerly open-source Redis project. We're calling it Valkey, since it's a twist on the key-value datastore.
Contributions:9 PRs, 62 pushes, 20 branches in 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.