Justin Yu
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Yu is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building cost-conscious, production-ready systems at Microsoft and Capital One. He has a strong track record in cloud automation and cost optimization—internship work saved an estimated $50k/month—and routinely automates infrastructure tasks using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Rundeck, and Bash. A UCSC computer science graduate, Justin blends backend engineering and developer productivity improvements with a knack for simplifying complex pipelines and reducing build times. He’s equally comfortable writing unit tests, refining front-end tooling, and teaching others, having mentored students in multiple languages and improved team workflows across past roles. Curious by nature and fond of offbeat humor, he brings practical creativity to problem solving and is actively expanding into ML and cloud-native architectures.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (2)
django1
web-application1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
justinyu9/justinyu9.github.io
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
janeshchhabra/Finder
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:24 pushes in 8 days
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