Yao Gu is a Senior Software Engineer at Confluent, with expertise in data models, data/events pipelines, data/stream catalogs, and graph databases. Previous experience includes a role as a Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company, focusing on cloud services for AI-driven autonomous driving simulations, and serving as a Research Assistant at Northwestern University, where Yao worked on neural architecture search and generative AI. Earlier, Yao contributed to large-scale distributed data processing and backend/API development at Baidu, Inc. Yao holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University and Peking University, as well as a Bachelor's degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Engineering skills include proficiency in Python, C, C++, WSGI/FastCGI, Nginx, Hadoop, and Spark.
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