Summary
Ao Yang is a Full Stack Engineer and founder with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable, production-grade web and mobile systems while completing an MS in Computer Science at USC. He has shipped real-time, high-availability servicesโfrom a CI/CD metrics dashboard at Autodesk to a Flutter event discovery app and Next.js networking site supporting 5,000 concurrent users on AWS EKS. His technical breadth spans frontend animation and performance optimization (React, D3.js, Framer Motion, Tailwind), backend APIs and real-time systems (FastAPI, Socket.io, Redis, MongoDB), and cloud infra with Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Ao also prototypes AI-driven products, integrating LLMs for financial insights and product recommendation flows, and emphasizes measurable impact like uptime and developer time savings. Notably, he blends startup founder instincts with enterprise experience, making him comfortable both iterating quickly and architecting for scale.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor's degree, Computing - Software Design, 3.97/4.30, Bachelor's degree, Computing - Software Design, 3.97/4.30 at Queen's University
English, Chinese