# Yuh-Ming Shyy > Principal, Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) at Workday Location: Saratoga, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yuhming • Database guru - singularly designed and built the database backend of the first cloud-based SaaS enterprise multilingual product information management (PIM) platform. System being used by clients in 14 languages and over 30 countries. • Expert in fault-tolerant data synchronization - built the first 24x7 hot standby object replication system, and a high-availability synchronization framework to synchronize data between mobile devices and cloud server. • 20 years of working experience with startup companies of all sizes. Able to comprehend the big picture at architectural and business level and yet could build at the very detailed technical level. • Well-rounded software professional with hands-on experience in every phase of software development life cycle. Extensive experiences with: -- System architecture (SOA, SaaS, N-tier architecture) for scalable distributed enterprise applications -- Relational database schema design for multilingual product information management (PIM), customer relationship management (CRM), electronic medical records (EMR), and E-Commerce -- Team building, mentoring, and project management -- Leading development team to build enterprise applications in C++, Java, C# and asp.net -- Building multi-threaded stress test tool and performance tuning -- Building business intelligence reports for data mining -- Web service API Integration (REST & SOAP) -- Continuous build/integration and schema change tracking -- Cloud computing and server management with Amazon AWS (EC2, RDS, Route 53, ELB, EMR) and Rackspace • Working knowledge of big data technologies – Hadoop ecosystems and NoSQL • Excellent team-player, self-motivated, fast-learning, and detail-oriented • Strong analytic, problem solving and debugging skill. ## Work Experience ### Principal, Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) @ Workday Adaptive Planning Jan 2015 – Present | Palo Alto, CA ### Principal Engineer @ Contenix Jan 2007 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, California Contenix is a cloud-based Product Information Management (PIM) enterprise platform that enables brands, manufacturers, and retailers to centralize, customize, manage, and distribute their multilingual structured, semi-structured, and unstructured product content across their global sales channels. As the principal engineer, I am responsible for the database design, system architecture, and lead the engineering team to implement many key projects using C#, ASP.NET, ASP.MVC, JQuery, and SQL Server, as well as to manage staging and production servers hosted by RackSpace and Amazon AWS. ### Director of Engineering @ iMedica Jan 1999 – Jan 2007 | Mountain View, CA (now at Dallas, TX) iMedica has been a pioneer in the field of Electronic Medical Records since 1994. As the director of engineering, I was responsible for engineering team management, the design, implementation, and delivery of iMedica's flagship EMR system Physician Suite (including PSDoctor, PSNurse, PSAadmin, PSPatient, PSBubbleForm, PSTranscriptionist, and iMedica.net) in VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#, and JAVA from version 1 to Version 4.4, as well as the database migration from version 4.4 to the next-generation PRM2007. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Broadbase Software Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Menlo Park, CA Design and implement Broadbase CRM business reports for Vantive. ### Team Lead @ Envive Corp. Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 | Mountain View, CA Lead a team of engineers to design and implement the Envive SAP R/3 performance monitor in C++. The data is collected from SAP R/3 shared memory and MS SQL Server, and feed into Repository for UI, alerts, and Crystal reports. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Versant Inc. Jan 1992 – Jan 1996 | Menlo Park, CA Designed and implemented the first release of Versant Fault-Tolerant Replication Server in C as an extension to the NoSQL database kernel. ## Education ### Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Object-Oriented Data Modeling and Programming Language Brown University ### PhD in Computer & Information Science University of Florida ### BS in Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ymshyy --- Source: https://flows.cv/yuhming JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yuhming/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12