# Paul Yang

> Engineering @ Xage Security

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/paulyang

Seasoned software development engineer with interested areas in distributed computing, cloud services and big data.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Xage Security
Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Sr Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on backend services to support MileIQ app for automatic drive capture and classifications. 
Worked on Microsoft family service backend to support Microsoft's family safety mobile apps.

### Principal Software Development Engineer @ ItsOn, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Redwood city, CA
Key contributor to backend infrastructure development and integration of ItsOn's policy management cloud based mobile platform.

### Principal Staff Software Engineer @ Motorola Mobility
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
• Led development effort of MMI’s cloud based user and device identity management platform.  The platform service provides unified signin experience across multiple end points: mobile device, web and desktop. It is deployed across multiple data centers and leveraged Apache Cassandra as data store to provide scalability support for MMI devices and users.
•	Implemented data migration solution to migrate existing user data from MySQL to Cassandra global data store; worked with operation team to ensure smooth data migration without any operation downtime. 
•	Led development effort of metric and recommendation engine that collects data from devices; mines device data from backend Hadoop data warehouse. The service enables customer call center agents and end users to trouble shoot device issues; provide recommendations for common fixes.

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Corporation
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Working cloud based service, database development, third party integration, instant message service

### Senior Software Engineer @ Danger Inc
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Worked on Danger cloud services, social networking integration.

### Senior Software Engineer @ RSA Security Inc
Jan 2001 – Jan 2006
Worked on RSA Identity Server

### Senior Software Engineer @ Securant Inc
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003
Worked on ClearTrust Authorization Server

### Software Engineer @ Amazon.com
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000
Worked on website deployment infrastructure and tools.


## Education
### Computer Science
University of Nevada-Las Vegas

### Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering
Guangdong University of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/paul-yang-5b1aab2

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Last updated: 2026-04-12