George Yao
Software Engineer at Mercury
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Yao is a software engineer based in Boston with nine years of experience building reliable, high-throughput payment and infrastructure systems. He has driven critical financial features and migrations at scale—improving payout throughput by over 1700% at Meta and implementing fractional-fee, high-precision money libraries and ledger logic at Moov. Comfortable across Go, Python, and web stacks, he’s led cross-functional efforts to reduce CI runtime, cut cloud costs, and improve observability for production pipelines. Now at Mercury, he continues to focus on safe, auditable payment flows and designer developer-facing abstractions that simplify complex state machines. Off-hours he hand-builds custom keyboards, a detail that reflects his interest in precision engineering and ergonomics.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Hong Kong International SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (10)
gwt8
orientdb6
python5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
guava4
multiclass-classification4
machine-learning-models4
image-classification3
coreml1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arnavgup/Attendify_iOS
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 10 pushes in 12 days
gyao852/phipps_db_visualizer
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:127 PRs, 120 pushes, 38 branches in 1 month
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