Daniel Yu
Software Engineering Manager (tech Lead) at Ascenda
Singapore
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Top SchoolDaniel Yu is a Software Engineering Manager and tech lead based in Singapore with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications, primarily using Ruby and JavaScript. A former educator and recruitment consultant, he combines strong cross-functional communication skills with hands-on engineering, ensuring product and user understanding drive technical decisions. At Ascenda he progressed from engineer to manager while leading orchestration-layer development and mentoring teams on best practices and on-call reliability. He has a track record of teaching and coaching—running university tutorials and bootcamp cohorts—which informs his approach to onboarding and developer growth. Outside of work he contributes to open source and remains interested in opportunities to teach programming, blending practical production experience with pedagogy.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, Upper Second Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, Upper Second Class Honours at University of HertfordshirePostgraduate Diploma, Education, 3.61 out of 4.00, Postgraduate Diploma, Education, 3.61 out of 4.00 at Universiti Utara MalaysiaFoundation in Arts, Foundation in Arts at Kolej Universiti HELP
Malay, English
Stackoverflow
26reputation
48reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (39)
rubocop10
static-code-analysis10
ruby-style-guide10
ruby10
code-analyzer10
linter10
html6
ruby-on-rails6
twitter-bootstrap6
file-structure3
bootstrap3
sinatra-web3
rails3
ember-cli3
sidekiq2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gohdaniel15/rubocop
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
linterstyle-guidecode-analyzerrubystatic-code-analyzer
gohdaniel15/making-cents
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:75 PRs, 66 pushes, 12 branches in 13 days
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