Kevin Yap
Software Engineer at Relay.app
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Yap is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, security-conscious systems and consumer-facing products, currently developing AI agents at Relay.app. He has led architecture and real-time engineering work for high-concurrency fan-engagement platforms at MLSE and optimized live-streaming networks to cut operational costs dramatically. His background includes Confidential Computing and identity attestation work at Google, contributions to SGX-related features in the Asylo project, and production-facing back-end systems at Freshline and Riot Games. An active open-source contributor and technical writer, he’s improved documentation for widely used projects like Click and Hy and helped modernize Pelican themes and analytics integration. Kevin pairs hands-on systems engineering with regular documentation and mentorship, and is comfortable moving between protocol buffers, Go, Python and cloud security primitives to take features from design to production.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Honours Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Honours Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (34)
c-language10
restructuredtext10
python10
onclick10
protocol-buffers10
sgx10
clicking10
rs10
clickable10
hy10
oneclick10
static-site-generation10
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
security9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
google/asylo
Aug 2019 - Feb 2021
An open and flexible framework for developing enclave applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:129 commits, 4 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on developing new SGX-related identity and security features for the Asylo framework. They primarily added and modified protocol buffer definitions for SGX identity representation, including machine configuration, and related match specifications and expectations. They implemented and updated utility methods to support the new SgxIdentity structure, and integrated the new format into the codebase. The user's changes indicate a shift towards a more complete SGX identity API.
trusted-execution-environmentdevelopingteeflexible-frameworkconfidential-computing
getpelican/pelican
Nov 2014 - Nov 2019
Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 15 commits, 11 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the Pelican static site generator by merging and modifying existing theme templates, specifically focusing on analytics integration. They updated the codebase to use Shields.io for consistent badge styling in the README. Additionally, the user made improvements to server-side logic, clarified documentation settings, and refactored code to reflect type changes in the configuration.
pythonstatic-sitesite-generatorrestpelican
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