# Yang Sheng

> Software Engineer at Gatik

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yangsheng

Software engineer focusing on ML systems and model performance, with extensive past experience in building large scale distributed systems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Gatik
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA
- Implemented custom CUDA kernels for perception models and preprocessing stages.
- Model quantization with mixed layer precisions to balance latency and quality.
- Model deployment on edge device using TensorRT.
- Various kernel level and scheduling optimizations to maximize GPU usage & reduce inferencing latency.

### Member of Technical Staff @ Pure Storage
Jan 2015 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California
- Remodeled our distributed cluster coordinator to enable fast failover in seconds at million object scale, implemented distributed transitions to resolve consistency problems.
- Scaled asynchronous replication objects by 10x while preserving original RPO goal.
- Worked on the data path for near-sync replication to enable sub-second disaster recovery.
- Various performance optimizations involving lock optimization, spurious wakeup, cache alignment etc, to ensure performance at scale.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yang-sheng-8b938794

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Last updated: 2026-04-05