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Hi there! I'm Ying Zhao, a software engineer in the Los Angeles area. I help design and ship scalable cloud services, autonomous vehicle simulations, and robust CI/CD pipelines. With a passion for reliability and performance, I thrive on turning tricky problems into straightforward, maintainable solutions, and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to push product goals forward.…

Yining Zhao

Back-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Developer, +2

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Hi there! I'm Ying Zhao, a software engineer in the Los Angeles area. I help design and ship scalable cloud services, autonomous vehicle simulations, and robust CI/CD pipelines. With a passion for reliability and performance, I thrive on turning tricky problems into straightforward, maintainable solutions, and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to push product goals forward.…

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Hi there! I’m Ying Zhao, a software engineer in the Los Angeles area. I help design and ship scalable cloud services, autonomous vehicle simulations, and robust CI/CD pipelines.

With a passion for reliability and performance, I thrive on turning tricky problems into straightforward, maintainable solutions, and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to push product goals forward.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer II at Cruise

January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2025

Work on the foundation team that develops and maintains an autonomous driving vehicle simulation service (AV Bot). The service is used by all Cruise cloud service teams for feature development and testing. Architected a high-concurrency Cloud AV service enabling large-scale load testing with 2,000+ simultaneous AV Bot instances, significantly increasing fleet-wide deployments. Designed and implemented an automated testing result pipeline, establishing gating metrics and real-time monitoring that streamlines the CI/CD workflow for all cloud service teams.

Senior Software Engineer at Postmates

January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021

Worked on the Merchant team that manages all restaurant information (locations, operating details, menus, etc.) on the Postmates platform. Built an automated call system during the pandemic that updates operating data for over 200K restaurant locations efficiently. Developed a bulk restaurant location update pipeline that boosts Ops team's productivity by 80%.

Programmer Analyst IV at UCLA

January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2019

Designed and maintained a HIPAA-compliant web application supporting longitudinal clinical studies for 8,000+ participants, ensuring 99.9% data integrity and availability.