Kevin Yu
Technical Lead at Cathay Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Yu is a Technical Lead with 12 years of experience building high-performance, cost-efficient systems and leading teams through large-scale Agile transformations. Based in New Taipei, Taiwan, he has driven measurable improvements—rewriting legacy PHP to Go for 70% better performance, reducing server counts by 75% for peak traffic, and cutting image service costs by 50% using serverless patterns. He combines hands-on cloud-native and event-driven architecture work (Kinesis, EventBridge, Step Functions) with people leadership—hiring, training, and instituting engineering practices like TDD, code review, and retrospectives across teams of 13+. A former patent-holder for traffic control design, he’s equally fluent in operational improvements (DevOps, Elasticsearch, microservices) and scaling agile processes (SAFe, Scrum) in enterprise environments.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Management, Master's degree Information Management at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (13)
adapter8
pdo8
phalcon7
php7
php-extension7
full-stack5
c-extension5
database4
high-performance4
php-framework3
sql3
mssql2
sql-server2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fishjerky/Go-Bowling
Jun 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 release, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
fishjerky/phalcon-mssql
Sep 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
phalconadapterpdodatabasemssql
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