Jacky Yuan
Senior Engineer at NightRide
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacky Yuan is a Senior Engineer based in New York with nine years of hands-on experience building production-ready systems and improving manufacturing-to-software workflows. He progressed from engineering associate roles into production leadership and now focuses on engineering at NightRide, bringing practical operations insight to software reliability and process optimization. Jacky contributes to open-source decentralized identity work—implementing ECDH-1PU cryptography and test suites in the ACA-Py project—demonstrating cryptographic rigor beyond typical production engineering. His background in electromechanical and computer engineering technology fuels a pragmatic approach to solving cross-disciplinary problems, from embedded vision research to scalable backend features. Colleagues value him for turning complex specifications into tested, maintainable implementations that bridge hardware, process, and software.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering Technology at City Tech, CUNY
Github Skills (6)
ecdhe10
python10
ecdh10
cryptography10
verifiable-credentials9
hyperledger-indy7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openwallet-foundation/acapy
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
ACA-Py is a foundation for building decentralized identity applications and services running in non-mobile environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Jacky primarily contributed to the `aries_cloudagent/crypto` directory, implementing cryptographic functionalities related to ECDH-1PU key agreement, as per RFC 587. The user's work involved creating new files for these features and enhancing existing files. They wrote multiple test cases to ensure that the key generation and ConcatKDF functions worked as expected and aligned with the IETF examples.
pythonvonethereumdecentralizedverifiable-credentials
RhombusNetwork/lighthouse-local
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 8 days
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