# Yi Cao

> Software engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Present | Sunnyvale
2019 - present:
I am TLing a team that delivers scalable reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) on Google servers to internal customers. My responsibilities are
*   Performing ROI analysis that prioritizes the team's projects to meet our customers' needs
*   Creating data-driven RAS solutions for both short-term and long-term goals
*   Collaborating with component vendors on product quality and roadmap.

2017 - 2018:
I worked on NPI projects, including x86 servers and non-volatile DIMMs. My responsibilities were 
*   Developing system software (BIOS, kernel, internal management automation software)
*   Providing sustaining support in debugging production issues.

### Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ University of Washington
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ CloudBrain
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
Implementing and testing sequence-embedding learning algorithms for a recommendation engine. Benchmarking GPU-based learning algorithms and approximate nearest neighbor algorithms.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Astrophysics
Caltech

### Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physics
Tsinghua University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
Tsinghua University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yi-cao-1a7301116
- Portfolio: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ycao

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Last updated: 2026-04-12