Wayne Yang

Vice President of Engineering at Samba TV

San Mateo, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Samba TV (10 yrs 5 mos)
    • VP Engineering, Internal Measurement
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    • VP Engineering, Internal Measurement / (interim) Head of Data Science
      Oct 2024 - Aug 2025 · 11 mos

    • VP Engineering, Operational Excellence and Architecture
      Feb 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Senior Software Engineering Manager - Measure at Quantcast
    Mar 2012 - Feb 2016 · 4 yrs

    Led the data team (a mix of engineers and modeling scientists) focussed on Quantcast's Measurement business and also the web team responsible for the Quantcast Measurement profiles showcasing analytics for millions of sites, web networks (e.g. NBC Universal owned tens of sites), and custom segmentation. Major Accomplishments: - Led the development of Mobile App (and Cross-Platform) measurement as an extension to the existing main data pipeline. Involved working closely with in-house mobile app developers that built out the Android and iOS SDKs. - Built the cross-platform cohort based analytics feature. - Led the teams that built Quantcast's Audience Interest and Political Interest features. - Led the teams that built out the Audience Grid, allowing for simpler integration/ingestion of third party data to be combined with the Quantcast website visitation data. - Created our Engineering On-Boarding consisting of an in person training session to go over map-reduce concepts and more specifically the basics of our internal frameworks for writing jobs/flows. - Significantly improved operations resulting in a large decrease in paging alerts and SLA breaches as related to the timeliness of measurement profile data refreshes.

  • Principal Software Engineer / First Time Manager - Ad Optimization at AOL Advertising
    Jul 2009 - Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Worked on AdLearn5, a core product of AOL Advertising used for advertising campaign management. It was here that I decided to make the jump from pure individual contributor to technical manager.

  • Contractor at AOptix Technologies
    Mar 2011 - Dec 2011 · 10 mos

    Worked on a Windows-based SDK for AOptix's Iris-based Authentication software.

  • Senior Algorithm Engineer at Atrua Technologies
    2004 - 2009 · 5 yrs

    Worked on image processing and fingerprint-based biometric authentication algorithms.