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title: "Yao Yue"
description: "Yao Yue is a San Francisco–based systems engineer and writer. She writes about systems, software, and the people who build them, drawing on years of work on distributed caching, performance engineering, and infrastructure at scale."
url: "https://yaoyue.org/"
---

# Yao Yue

Yao lives in San Francisco. You can find her biking or walking around the city, taking her kids on chores and trips, or more likely spending time thinking about systems, some of which happen to be made of computer software. She is procrastinating on becoming a writer.

## Elsewhere on this site
- [Blog](https://yaoyue.org/blog/) — essays on systems, software, and the people who build them.
- [Talks](https://yaoyue.org/talks/) — public talks, podcasts, and interviews.
- [llms.txt](https://yaoyue.org/llms.txt) — a concise, machine-readable map of this site.