Summary
Kebing Yu is a senior software engineer with 13 years of full-stack experience and a strong backend focus, currently building scalable systems at Yahoo in Fremont, CA. He brings deep hands-on expertise across PHP, Java, Node.js, Python and C++, and has implemented RESTful APIs, chatbots, and backend services using Laravel, Vue.js, Redis and Java for newsroom-scale applications. A vim enthusiast and practical engineer, he has moved between startups and large media platforms (QuinStreet, Internet Brands, Verizon Media) delivering high-throughput web services and integrations with messaging and NLP platforms. His academic background in mechanical and automotive engineering gives him a systems-oriented mindset and an appetite for complex problem solving uncommon in typical web engineers. Comfortable with Git, Perforce and SVN, he pairs legacy-system fluency with modern cloud-era practices to maintain and evolve critical production code. Active on GitHub and experienced across the entire delivery stack, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, maintainable backend solutions.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering at Kansas State University
MS Automotive Engineering, MS Automotive Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University