# Yong Jiang

> Staff Software Engineer at Alibaba Cloud

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yongjiang

Engineering professional in distributed storage systems with strong understanding of data structures and algorithms. Strong coding skills with programming experience in Java. Extensive working experience in scalability, durability, maintainability and performance of distributed storage systems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Alibaba Cloud
Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Distributed storage systems

### Storage Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, CA
- Deploy multi-generation hard drive based storage solutions for hyperscale data centers at Meta.
Responsible for improving the durability, availability and reliability of large scale distributed storage systems.
- Enable the multi-datacenter scalability and redundancy of the storage fleet through system design, tooling automation and test orchestration.
- Work with multiple hyperscalers on standardizing storage requirements aiming to improve Meta’s influence on the industry ecosystem.
- Optimize the performance and IO efficiency of distributed systems by meeting the SLA for hyperscale services, applications and databases.
- Grow the team by mentoring junior engineers and interviewing engineering talents.

### President @ Chinese American Information Storage Society (CAISS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Milpitas, California, United States
- Promote technological innovation, entrepreneurial development and global business communication and collaborations in information storage industry. 
- Help create vibrant community sharing the technology advancements in the areas of cloud storage/computing, mobile storage, big data, magnetic sensor networking, IoT, and AI, etc.

### Vice President @ Chinese American Information Storage Society (CAISS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Milpitas, California, United States
Responsible for organizing technical symposiums

### Principal Engineer @ WD, a Western Digital Company
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Orange County, California
- Responsible for storage product integration and launch by meeting the reliability, performance and data integrity requirements.
- Lead multi projects aiming to improve the capacity through firmware optimization and system design iterations.
- Enable continuous performance improvements in IOPS, bandwidth and latency.
- Unblock and resolve the production issues through big data analysis and test automation.

### Senior Staff Engineer @ WD, a Western Digital Company
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Orange County, California, United States

### Staff Engineer @ WD, a Western Digital Company
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Orange County, California, United States

### Senior Engineer @ Seagate Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
- Perform failure analysis on read-write-related issues for HDD factory manufacturing yield improvement.
- Lead projects, track issues and recommend corrective actions to program and process teams.
- Optimize test process parameters for preamplifier, channel, format selection and flaw detection.
- Work with the US design center and assist in new product launch and delivery to the factory.
- Collaborate with other functional teams (FW, servo, mechanic, and process etc) by providing support in recording sub systems.

### Engineer @ Seagate Technology
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

### Research Assistant @ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Hung Hom, Hong Kong
-	Conduct research on electric and magnetic properties of magnetoresistive thin films
-	Developed a Labview-based real-time temperature and pH monitoring system

### Research Assistant @ Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | Hefei, Anhui, China
-	Maintain Hard X-ray diagnostic system for experimental fusion reactor (a.k.a. tokamak)
-	Collect hard X-ray data during tokomak experiments to study fast electron bremsstrahlung (FEB) emission behavior of plasma confined in tokamaks.
-	Write data collection and analysis scripts using Matlab.
-	Perform data analysis and write experiment reports and conference papers.


## Education
### Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Applied Physics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

### Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics
University of Science and Technology of China


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12