Summary
Johnny Yang is a senior technical leader in cloud networking and SDN with eight years of focused experience delivering scalable private cloud solutions in enterprise environments. Currently a Senior Technical Staff at Workday, he builds cloud engineering capabilities with Contrail and OpenStack to automate, scale, and stabilize the Workday private cloud. His prior roles span Symantec/Blue Coat, Cisco, Brocade, Narus, WebEx, Nortel, and more, where he designed IPv6 deployments, upgraded COE networking, implemented OpenStack networking, and led automated testing and scalable control planes across multi-hypervisor ecosystems. He has a strong foundation in Linux, TCP/IP, and large-scale networking, with a Master in Computer Science from Carleton University that underpins his system-level design approach. Based in Danville, CA, he brings a practical, hands-on ethos to bridging research and production, consistently shipping robust, secure networking features under tight timelines. As a data zealot on GitHub, he blends curiosity with practical engineering to turn complex networking challenges into maintainable, scalable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Geochemsitry, Master of Science (M.S.), Geochemsitry at University of Science and Technology of China
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Earth and Environmental Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Earth and Environmental Sciences at City University of New York
English, Chinese