Yu Yang

Yu Yang is an experienced Engineering Manager at Verkada since May 2021, specializing in extracting value from data to support teams in making informed decisions. Previously, Yu held the position of Senior Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Pinterest from May 2014 to January 2021, where responsibilities included leading the development of a Flink-based stream processing platform for real-time applications and automating job deployment and recovery processes. Prior experience includes working as a Software Engineer at Microsoft from April 2009 to November 2013 on the Windows Azure monitoring and diagnostics team, focusing on multi-tenancy and data access solutions, and serving as a Research Assistant at the University of Utah from August 2004 to March 2009, where Yu developed a dynamic verifier for detecting concurrency-related bugs. Yu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah, an M.E. in Computer Science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University.