Yitao He
Systems Engineer · Distributed Systems · Reliability
Hello and welcome.
Engineer at heart, outdoor enthusiast by choice — building reliable systems while enjoying poker, fishing, and nature.
About me
Shanghai → Champaign → San Jose → Shanghai
Education
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (BS, 2016–2020)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (MS, 2021–2022)
Career
- Bank software developer, Bank of Shanghai, Shanghai (2020–2021)
- Cybersecurity backend software developer, Zscaler, San Jose (2023–2026)
- Freelance developer (now)
Recently
- Putting together a personal migration checklist: accounts, tax, devices, identity, and docs.
- Revisiting system design: exactly-once, cache consistency, thundering herd, and observability.
- Turning experience into reusable “decision frameworks”: how to make long-term choices under pressure.
(MVP: site is live; content will keep updating.)
What I’ll write about
- Engineering: distributed systems / reliability / production debugging
- Interview: system design memo + coding patterns (C++/backend)
- Life: 阿滔1998