Alex Yu
SDE at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Yu is an SDE with eight years of hands-on experience building resilient, low-latency distributed systems and cloud-native tooling, currently contributing to Transactional Services at AWS. A University of Toronto CS graduate, he blends DevOps expertise in Kubernetes, GCP, and CircleCI with full-stack development using Django and Postgres—having shipped an HRM system for sports teams and a blockchain e-commerce prototype under UofT’s startup incubator. He has practical database internals experience from an AuroraDB internship and has designed production data pipelines and automated testing workflows for healthcare data. Based in Seattle, Alex owns end-to-end delivery on large-scale projects, pairing strong operational instincts with a taste for system design and cross-team collaboration. Outside work he’s an optimist who reads, swims, and plays guitar, a mix that keeps his engineering approach steady and creative.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alexander-yf-yu/Evader
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:53 commits in 2 months
alexander-yf-yu/coachboard
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Workforce and payroll management software for Swim Clubs
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
swimclubspayrolldjangopostgresql
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