About

Yihong Huang is a highly skilled software engineer with extensive experience in developing and implementing software solutions for large enterprises. He is currently working at Microsoft as a Software Engineer, where he is responsible for refactoring the whole Auth framework to improve the structure and logic, including multiple different auth protocols. He is also involved in cooperating with other services (in S2S features team) on Auth logical permission modification and improvement. Before joining Microsoft, Yihong worked at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer, where he implemented Signature Version 4 signing to add authentication information to HTTPS requests, including signature verification, Identity proportions, logs, throttling, response validation, and corresponding AuthZ and AuthN steps modification. He also enabled WAFv2 to monitor the requests, applied Encryption and Signing to deal with the sensitive information with KMS and Secrets Manager, and built Pipelines, including multiple stages, approval workflow, and Integration test. Yihong's past experience also includes working as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon QuickSight, where he reduced the training data from 40 to 25 for Machine Learning algorithm Anomaly Detection. He also helped launch the Alert service, including the design and implementation of the Error handler, parts APIs, summarizing working flow with Lambda, corresponding Step Function modification, Business Metrics (Kinesis Data Firehose), DynamoDB on demand and auto-backup, context-aware logging, and so on. Yihong holds a Master's degree in Statistics from the George Washington University, a Bachelor's degree in Finance, General from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, and another Bachelor's degree in Finance, General from the University of West Georgia. He has a strong technical background in software engineering, testing, integration, web development, and machine learning. With 4.95 years of relevant experience, Yihong is a highly competent software engineer who is capable of delivering innovative solutions to complex problems.