Summary
Ning Yap is a Senior Software Engineer and tech lead with 13 years of experience building large-scale web applications and developer tooling, currently driving artwork creation, automation, and localization systems for 15k playlists at Spotify. She specializes in React, TypeScript, Java, GraphQL, and cloud-native CI/CD on GCP/GKE, and has built data pipelines and metrics dashboards that power product insights. A mentor and workshop leader, Ning actively coaches engineers on TypeScript adoption and career growth and serves as a Spotify Fellowship mentor. Her background in music and entertainment — from record labels to film and TV — informs a user-focused, creative approach to building interactive experiences, and she still composes and records music in her spare time.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Music Industry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Music Industry at USC
Flatiron School
English, Chinese