Aaron Yong
Principal at Saikyo Softworks
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Yong is a principal software engineer and architecture-minded leader based in Edmonton with 11 years of experience building full-stack and mobile solutions across startups and enterprises. He has a track record of turning product vision into production systems—leading AMA’s flagship app migration, introducing CI/CD and release tracks, and guiding teams as a consultant and CTO. Comfortable in both hands-on development (Flutter/Dart, Django/Python, ASP.NET Core/C#) and delivery practices, he also brings strong Agile (Scrum/Kanban) process design and pipeline improvements to teams. Aaron combines technical depth with client-facing product work, from UX mock-ups to deployment on AWS and Azure DevOps. Notably, he pairs a perfect academic record in Computing Science with a pragmatic focus on measurable outcomes rather than titles. His recent role founding Saikyo Softworks signals a move to scale a human-centered team of digital natives to help organizations take the next digital leap.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing Science, Specialization in Software Practice, 4.0 GPA First Class Standing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing Science, Specialization in Software Practice, 4.0 GPA First Class Standing at University of Alberta
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (90)
python10
windows10
rest-api10
django10
api10
rest10
cross-platform10
django-rest-framework10
android10
macos10
flutter10
ios10
desktop10
toggl9
dart9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ajyong/docker-by-example
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Demonstrating how to get ASP.NET Core and Django development environments up and running with Docker and Docker Compose.
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 4 months
djangoaspdockercomposeasp-net
ajyong/ajyong.github.io
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Hey look I'm on the internet
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 9 months
lookreactheyinternetnextjs
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