Yanting Zhao is an experienced software engineer with a strong background in software development and research. Yanting began the career at Tsinghua University as a research assistant, contributing to the Patent Miner System, and later served as a research assistant at Columbia University, where contributions included developing a comment scraper and a model for classifying user comments. Yanting transitioned to the tech industry with a software development engineer internship at Yahoo!, followed by a role at Amazon focusing on product bundles. Yanting's tenure at Google includes positions as a software engineer, working on YouTube Ads infrastructure and network architecture, and currently holds the role of senior software engineer, focusing on Spanner.