Summary
Phoebe Yu is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems, currently developing software at C1 after several leadership roles at Okta. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, she has deep hands-on experience across backend stacks (Go, Node.js, Java, PostgreSQL) and has been a reliable on-call engineer who pairs feature delivery with strong testing and code-review discipline. At Okta she progressed from Staff to Principal to Software Architect, driving architecture and operational improvements while responding directly to customer and support needs. Earlier roles at ScaleFT and Rackspace sharpened her focus on reliability, integrations, and distributed systems. Beyond engineering, she’s contributed code and packages on GitHub and npm, blending production-grade engineering with an interest in developer tooling and reusable libraries. Colleagues know her for balancing pragmatic shipping with attention to long-term maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
3D Animation, 3D Animation at Academy of Art University
English, Spanish