Summary
Jason Yau is a Senior Software Engineer based in Toronto with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure back-end services and user-facing features across identity automation, real estate platforms, and fintech mobile apps. Currently on Okta’s Workflow team, he focuses on identity automation and has a proven track record of improving delivery and observability—at BrokerBay he cut debugging time by 50% and reduced CI costs by 20% through pragmatic tooling and process changes. He brings full-stack fluency (React, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL) and mobile expertise (Flutter, WebSocket, Android) informed by a BEng in Computer Engineering from HKUST. Notably, he boosted a trading app’s FPS by 55% and established CI/CD pipelines that tightened security and release velocity, showing a blend of performance optimization and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)