Michael Yoo
Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Yoo is a software engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building reliable, performance-focused systems across startups and large engineering organizations. Currently a P4 Software Engineer at Atlassian after a stint in site reliability, he brings practical SRE sensibilities to software development and a track record of shipping optimisations—most notably a 30x speedup for a production data enrichment pipeline using asyncio. His background spans Python-heavy backend work, serverless AWS architectures, observability and tooling, plus early entrepreneurial experience running high-traffic web properties. Comfortable teaching complex systems (Band 1 student experience) and ideating pragmatic developer tools, he blends hands-on coding craft with an emphasis on measurable performance and developer experience. Notably, he describes himself wryly as “a neural network that happens to output syntactically valid code,” signaling a playful, experimental approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (200)
php-library10
grav-plugin10
micro-framework10
php10
music10
sql-parser10
header-files10
phpstorm10
abstract-syntax-tree10
preprocessor10
rust10
cli10
psr-310
slim-framework10
musicbrainz10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
msjyoo/webrcon.io
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 3 pushes in 2 months
sekjun9878/dokku-redis-plugin
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 50 commits, 20 PRs in 6 months
dokkuredis
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