# Yang Wu

> Principal Software Engineer at Roblox

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yangwu1

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2022 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States
Principal Software Engineer and TL in the Content and Communication Safety org, leading initiatives across ML, infrastructure, and product impact. Highlights include building a real-time automated game takedown system with strong precision, expanding automated image moderation coverage while maintaining quality, launching ML models for critical-harm conversation detection, creating unified ML infrastructure for training and feature engineering, and driving adoption of a shared ML monorepo.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer and TL in Ads ML Infra org. Co-founded a company-wide feature platform that became core infrastructure for Ads ranking and understanding. Designed and built foundational components—including compilers, optimizers, streaming pipelines, and backfill engines—that powered sophisticated ML use cases across multiple teams.

### Research Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania, Computer & Information Science
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Developed novel and practical techniques to diagnosing faults in distributed systems (example: Software-defined Networks). Research published at HotNets 2013/2015, SIGCOMM 2014/2016, CIDR 2017, and NSDI 2017/2019. Broadly, I do research in networking and distributed systems.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
Core Systems. Location Aware Distribution team (distributed systems).

### Research Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Mobility and Networking Research.

### Summer Research Intern @ International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), UC Berkeley
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Berkeley, CA
Future Internet architecture.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor's Degree in Automation (Computer & Electrical Engineering)
Tsinghua University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12