Denise Yu
Engineering Manager at Ro
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDenise Yu is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading infrastructure and product teams to build scalable, reliable systems, currently shaping platform work at Ro. She has managed teams at HashiCorp and GitHub—where she led GitHub Sponsors and shipped features to improve safety and signal on GitHub.com—combining deep technical hands-on work with program and hiring leadership. Her background spans backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and open-source contributions (including meaningful planner improvements for codebar), and she’s comfortable moving between code, org-building, and community engagement. With advanced training in social policy from LSE and a BA in economics-philosophy, she brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to engineering decisions and team dynamics. A quirky lifelong tinkerer, she also lists herself as a “Professional dogeScript developer,” hinting at a playful curiosity that surfaces in pragmatic, creative solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Classics, Bachelor of Arts, Classics at Boston CollegeLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceBachelor of Arts, Economics-Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, Economics-Philosophy at Columbia University
English, Chinese, French, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
rails10
postgresql10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
integrations9
emailjs9
e-mail9
activerecord9
url-routing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
codebar/planner
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
🗓 the main codebar site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:373 commits, 215 PRs, 181 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Denise's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the codebar planner. The changes included fixing specifications related to PostgreSQL typing and implementing features related to eligibility confirmation, such as adding routes, mailer methods, and controller actions. Furthermore, the user also introduced a model and migration for eligibility inquiries, while also refactoring aspects of the code. They also added support for adding CCs in email, in addition to introducing methods to add attendance warnings.
ruby-on-railsnextjsrubycodebar
deniseyu/pubname-generator
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
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