Kuan Yao
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKuan Yao is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale, distributed, highly available services, currently focused on securing and optimizing AWS S3. He brings a strong full-stack and architecture-first mindset, turning complex workflows into automated, production-hardened systems that prioritize durability and speed. Kuan's background includes leading system architecture and engineering teams for enterprise AR/IoT solutions at APX Labs and core platform work across multiple AWS roles, demonstrating comfort across both startup and hyperscale environments. He combines deep technical rigor with a passion for modern tooling and rapid delivery processes, often shaping engineering practices as well as code. Fluent in bridging research, design, and operational needs, he has a track record of shipping resilient services used by millions.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Virginia TechBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Zhejiang University
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Github Skills (13)
powerbi6
sql-server6
git6
version-control6
google-bigquery6
azure6
machine-learning6
sql6
github6
mysql6
react3
vex2
tower2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kuanyao/aws-lambda-dns
Aug 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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