Microsoft, Principal Software Engineer

Born and raised in China, Yang came to US for graduate school after college in the field of Computer Information Science in 1997. She studied at Temple University and University of Pennsylvania. She's worked in the field of software development for the past 20+ years. She's gone through the transition from waterfall to agile, from monolith to distributed to cloud architectures. She is an experienced Principal Engineer with a demonstrated history of problem solving and system design. She is highly skilled in Requirements Analysis, Databases, IT Strategy, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), cloud computing and Software Development. Besides being a technical leader and supportive and enthusiastic team player dedicated to Agile development , she always looks for opportunities to learn new technology and solve challenging problems and to expand her professional horizon. Her passion is optimize system architecture, utilize best practices and streamline software development for usability as well as maintainability.