Alexander Yao
Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Yao is a software engineer based in New York with 7 years of experience building backend systems, cloud-native tooling, and data-driven solutions. Self-taught in programming and formally trained in finance, accounting, and business analytics (3.9 GPA at Indiana Kelley), he blends rigorous analytical thinking with hands-on engineering in Python, Go, C++, Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps. At Cisco Meraki he contributes to scalable product engineering, and previously supported deal analytics at PwC, bringing both enterprise discipline and startup-style execution to projects. An active open-source contributor to the popular Home Assistant project, he has implemented notification fixes, VAPID key generation, and Life360 integration improvements that emphasize local control and privacy. Outside work he experiments with smart home and IoT systems and maintains a public GitHub where he prototypes and shares practical automation tools.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business, Accounting, Finance, and Business Analytics, 3.9/4.00, Bachelor of Science in Business, Accounting, Finance, and Business Analytics, 3.9/4.00 at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
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Github Skills (38)
platformio10
debugging10
api-rest10
debug10
c-language10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
sphinx10
rs10
ota10
asyncio10
esp826610
iot10
sys10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 6 commits, 14 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to bug fixes and feature additions within the `home-assistant/core` repository, specifically focusing on the HTML5 notification component. Their work involved modifying Python code and test files to address issues related to Firefox notifications, ensuring proper functioning of push notifications and handling of different notification scenarios. The user also added functionalities related to VAPID key generation and config flow enabling user configurations for the component. Furthermore, they implemented a button for updating location within the Life360 integration and fixed issues with the configuration.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
alexyao2015/ESPHomeYAML
Nov 2020 - Jan 2025
My personal ESPHome yaml configs
Contributions:4 PRs, 231 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 2 months
configsesphome-configesphomeyaml-configsesphomeyaml-config
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