Alex Yao
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Yao is a results-driven software engineer and leader with 11 years of experience building products from 0 to 1 and scaling them into production, currently contributing at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends deep technical skills in architecture, performance, stability, and UX with a proven ability to recruit and mentor top talent, having led engineering teams at LeanData. Alex has a full-stack background that includes shipping B2B firmware distribution at codebender and revamping UI rendering engines earlier in his career. An active contributor to open-source projects, he has applied backend and automation expertise to the popular PokemonGo-Bot, improving pathing, catching logic, and reliability. Trained in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering, he uniquely pairs product-minded engineering with a sustained focus on cultivating high-performance engineering culture.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National University of SingaporeManagement Science & Engineering, Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (15)
bots10
automation10
automations10
python10
googlebot10
debug9
algorithms5
algorithm5
data-structures5
docker4
dockers4
telegram3
mqtt3
mqttnet3
slack3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PokemonGoF/PokemonGo-Bot
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
The Pokemon Go Bot, baking with community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 81 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Pokemon Go Bot by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and optimizing the bot's behavior. Their work includes enhancements to the step walker for altitude changes, improvements to the Pokemon catching logic with berry usage thresholds, and adjustments to the follow path functionality. The user also addressed issues related to evolving Pokemon and implemented a consecutive vanish limit with rest functionality.
pythonpokemongofdiscordbotdiscord-bot
alexyaoyang/PokemonGo-Bot
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:98 pushes, 27 branches in 9 months
golangdiscordbakingbotdiscord-bot
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