Hans Yu
Engineering at Stealth Startup
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHans Yu is a pragmatic full-stack engineering leader with 12 years of experience building SaaS and marketplace products, currently leading engineering at a stealth startup after serving as Staff Engineer and Team Lead at ResQ. He’s comfortable across the stack—cloud-native devops (CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes), backend services in Node/Python/Go/Rails, React/Angular frontends, mobile (Android, React Native), and multiple database paradigms—favoring simple, predictable architectures, microservices and domain-driven design. Hans combines hands-on implementation with product-minded UX input, having shaped features that simplify complex operational workflows for on-the-ground facility operators. A former cofounder and startup contributor, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a bias for continuous refactoring and high quality, test-driven delivery. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs practical engineering leadership with a knack for translating messy real-world processes into elegant, usable software.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lord Beaverbrook High SchoolBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
2,750reputation
325kreached
29answers
10questions
javascript
top-5%
Github Skills (101)
wysiwyg10
pdf-conversion10
javascript10
editor10
golang10
orm-library10
processor10
typescript10
word-processor10
portal10
text-editing10
nextjs10
orm10
sql9
database9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yuzhenmi/taleweaver
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
[WIP] Web word processor for 2Tale Writer's Portal.
Contributions:280 commits, 137 PRs, 449 pushes in 3 years 8 months
text-editingwysiwygjavascriptwipportal
jamiewaese/ePlant
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 4 months
biological-datapythondata-visualizationlevelsbiological
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