Yong Tao
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYong Tao is a Senior Software Development Engineer with over 3 years of focused experience in cloud and DevOps at AWS, currently leading CI/CD offerings and previously driving feature and reliability growth for AWS CodeBuild. He also has experience building privacy-preserving computation systems from his time at Meta, contributing to scalable MPC deployments on virtual private clouds. Based in Seattle, he blends a strong academic background in machine learning and computer vision from The Ohio State University with hands-on engineering across large-scale distributed systems. Known for improving extensibility, performance, and cost-effectiveness in production services, he brings a pragmatic tech-lead mindset that balances product impact and architectural health. An AWS engineer by trade and an early GitHub account holder (formerly @taoyong-ty-zz), he combines operational rigor with privacy and ML research roots.
3 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Shenzhen Senior High SchoolMaster of Science (MS), Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
continuous-integration10
docker-image10
codebuild10
aws10
dockerfile10
serverless10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
aws-codebuild10
java9
python9
spring-security9
spring-data9
spring-boot9
spring8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws-actions/aws-codebuild-run-build
Jan 2023 - Nov 2025
Run an AWS CodeBuild project as a step in a GitHub Actions workflow job.
Contributions:16 releases, 42 reviews, 55 PRs in 2 years 9 months
aws-codebuildgithubaction-workflowawsdevopsserverless
taoyong-ty/aws-codebuild-run-build
Jan 2023 - Apr 2024
Run an AWS CodeBuild project as a step in a GitHub Actions workflow job.
Contributions:4 releases, 65 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
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