# Yahya Q.

> swe @ zoox | eecs @ uc berkeley ‘24

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yahya

🤖: ml infra / data infra software engineer @ zoox
📩: yahya.qt [at] berkeley [dot] edu

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure @ Zoox
Jan 2025 – Present | Foster City, California
• ml infra, data platform: ingest, storage, orchestration of compute, etc, of PBs data / week

• Q4 2025: Designed & built an observability pipeline to capture the cost, virtual resource utilization & efficiency / parallelism of $1M/month of Apache Spark jobs on EMR Serverless / EC2. 

• Q1 2026: Optimization of Apache Spark on EMR. Failure control, anomaly detection & virtual resource management. 

• Q1 2026: Batch based processing for 10-20M simulated driving scenarios per week to save $70k/month in compute & decrease latency by… 🤩

### Machine Learning Research Paper Reading Club @ Zoox
Jan 2025 – Present
• Weekly group covering prediction / planning for autonomous vehicles.
• Presented: 
1) "ReSim: Reliable Simulation for Autonomous Vehicles" (Yang et al.)
2) Model-Based Policy Adaptation for Closed-Loop E2E Autonomous Driving (Lin et al.)

• My running notes here: https://tinyurl.com/4erjhn6m

### MOVE Fellow @ Handshake
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
• worked w/ top* ml researchers to improve their llm capabilities (* = under nda)

### Software Engineer II @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California
• Fulfillment management system team: 100 engineers, 30 micro services, orchestrate fulfillment of 4,000,000+ online orders/day to generate $100,000,000+/day

### Software Engineer Intern @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California
• Built a tool for 50+ devs to quickly identify slow / failing integration tests of 29 micro-services
• Developed a Spring Boot REST API to query Elasticsearch & visualized test data w/ React
• Enabled a 60 min reduction in test suite duration across 10 micro-services by exposing performance bottlenecks

### Data Intern - National Champion! @ PwC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California
• Won 1st place 🥇 out of 143 teams (1,183 Interns) nationwide for the data analysis client project competition

### Software Engineer @ dotPrompt
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
Born out of CalHacks @ UC Berkeley.

### Software Engineer Intern @ SWiiFT
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California
• social media for tourists, built the mvp

### Frontend Web Developer @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California
• Building out features for scheduler.csmentors.org (serving 1600+ students / semester)

### Embedded Systems Engineer @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California
• Prototyped an E-brake using Google’s design SPRINT at Jacobs Institute of Design.
• Coded an Arduino using C++ to interface with twin linear actuators to drive the brakes.
• Designed & assembled an electronic circuit featuring the Huzzah32 micro-controller.
• Pitched our prototype to a panel of 20+ industry experts from Tesla, Meta, Google, etc.
• Placed 2nd out of 32 teams for both the Best Prototype & People’s Choice Awards.

### Mathematics Tutor @ Lafayette Academy
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Lafayette, California
• Orchestrated 808 one hour long private tutoring sessions in math up to AP Calc BC across 1.5 years

### Mathematics Tutor @ Diablo Valley College
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Pleasant Hill, California
• Orchestrated 300+ tutoring sessions per week, specializing in math ranging from Pre-Calculus, Calculus I-III, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math,  & Differential Equations across four semesters
• Modeled an ideal tutoring session to be recorded for DVC's math pedagogy course for future tutors
• Balanced colloquial and technical language to maximize students’ comprehension.
• Invoked productive discussion amongst students through strategic questions


## Education
### BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)

### BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### AS in Computer Science
Diablo Valley College

### High School Diploma
Acalanes High School

### M.H Stanley Middle School

### Akhnaton Egyptian Language School (A.E.L.S)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yahyaq

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Last updated: 2026-04-11