Summary
Dave Yu is a senior software engineer and people-centered technology leader with 10+ years building cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams across e-commerce and media. He currently develops cloud provisioning and governance APIs at The Walt Disney Company after directing engineering and driving a Shopify-centric modernization at The Black Tux that cut outages, recovery time, and costs. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and DevOps, he has led Kubernetes migrations, architected high-performance Node.js services, and championed cost-effective modernization at enterprise scale. Dave pairs hands-on engineering with talent development, fostering inclusive teams that achieve above-average retention and engagement. Based in Los Angeles and grounded in a BS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, he excels at translating business goals into pragmatic technical roadmaps. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often focuses on operational resilience and developer experience as levers for business impact.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego