Ed Young
Vice President (Sr. Software Engineer I) at BlackRock
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Young is a platform engineer and VP with a decade of experience building API platforms and improving developer experience at BlackRock in San Francisco. He led the migration of partner-facing APIs to Apigee and designed an RFC 8693-compliant OAuth 2.0 token exchange to enable secure federation with external IDPs, boosting monetization, analytics, and platform stability. Comfortable bridging engineering and domain-adjacent users, he has enabled data scientists and portfolio managers with tooling improvements and local development setups that cut latency by up to 80%. Early product and startup experience—leading mobile app and analytics efforts—complements his enterprise-grade work, giving him a rare mix of hands-on coding, design sensibility, and cross-functional leadership.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityHemet High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Cornell University
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (16)
ruby10
macos9
linux9
package-manager9
homebrew9
authentication8
helmfile6
api3
gateway3
nodejs3
helm2
microgateway2
kubernetes2
swagger1
api-gateway1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
edwinyoung/recipe-searchengine
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
edwinyoung/helmenv
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Helm version manager
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
helm-chartskubernetesversion-managerhelm
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