Jorge Yau
Senior Engineering Manager at Ocrolus
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJorge Yau is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling web and backend systems for high-growth startups, currently leading the Mortgage engineering vertical at Ocrolus. He combines hands-on technical leadership—drafting API contracts, reviewing PRs, and contributing code—with strategic product ownership, driving roadmaps for Index, Income, and Inspect revenue products. Jorge has a strong track record of modernizing legacy apps into robust dashboards using TypeScript, React, and Kubernetes, and of improving release and A/B experimentation processes to accelerate learning and reduce churn. He excels at cross-functional coordination across engineering, product, sales, and operations to deliver data-driven, user-centric solutions in change-resistant industries like mortgage. Known for automating tedious workflows and creating experimentation frameworks (e.g., Stash Canary), he prioritizes transparent communication, trust through autonomy, and measurable impact. Based in New York, he holds a BS in Computer Science and brings a balance of technical depth, operational rigor, and product empathy.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The City College of New York
Github Skills (59)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codenameyau/web-journal
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
:octocat: My web component journal
Contributions:130 commits, 1 PR, 109 pushes in 4 years 9 months
web-componentsanimationscanvascssreact
codenameyau/github-label
Jun 2015 - Oct 2019
:gift: Node.js CLI for creating GitHub labels
Contributions:3 releases, 39 commits, 33 pushes in 4 years 5 months
nodejs-cli
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