# Yangmin Zhu

> Staff Engineer at Uber

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yangmin

Compile idea to code correctly, efficiently and elegantly.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2022 – Present
Secure Service Mesh from the ground up: https://kccncna2025.sched.com/event/27FdO

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022
I worked on the open source project Istio (https://istio.io) focusing on the security area (Identity, Authentication, Authorization and Vulnerabilities).
  - Maintainer of the Istio security work group
  - Co-authored and implemented the Authorization API end-to-end (Istio and Envoy) with full (unit, integration, e2e and fuzzy) tests coverage
  - Designed and developed many security features and improvements including AuthZ deny policy, dry-run policy, External Authorization (OPA, OAuth, etc.), JWT validation and mTLS
  - Developed the Envoy RBAC network filter and continuously contributed to the Envoy project (JWT filter, CEL in RBAC, CVE handling, etc.)
  - Co-established the Istio Product Security Committee, discovered, fixed and coordinated multiple CVEs across companies
  - Spoke at open source conferences (IstionCon 20, EnvoyCon 19) for advocating security features and best practices.

I also worked on the design and development of security features in Anthos Service Mesh (ASM, Google's managed Istio) and Traffic Director (Google's fully managed service mesh).

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
I worked on the serving backends (C++, Java) for Google Maps iOS/Android clients.
- Migrated the serving flow to a semantic format to support flexible and fast client-side rendering
- Completed the migration of live traffic for billions of mobile clients without compatibility issues


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Architecture
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology
Sichuan University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12