Yuchen Yao
SWE at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuchen Yao is a software engineer at Google with nine years of experience building developer tooling, automated testing, and privacy features for Android Studio. He has driven GenAI-driven test scenario research with Google Research, implemented Gradle Managed Device code completion, and led Privacy Sandbox integrations that improved developer workflows with minimal supervision. His background spans mobile development (Android/iOS), CI/CD and release pipelines, and robotics research—having tuned SLAM for agricultural robots and designed drone swarm software at UCLA. Comfortable bridging research and production, he focuses on scalable, testable systems and subtle developer UX improvements that boost productivity. Based in Kirkland and a UCLA alum, he brings a blend of deep systems thinking and hands-on implementation across diverse domains.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics of Computation, Junior, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics of Computation, Junior at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
gradle8
kotlin7
java7
groovy6
automation4
tensorflow3
robotics2
px42
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AusarYao/Self_Driving_System_for_UGV
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
AusarYao/AusarYao.github.io
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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