Richard Yu
Tech Team Director at SmartStudy.com
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Yu is a seasoned technology leader with 12 years of experience directing engineering teams and delivering web products from Beijing's Chaoyang District. As Tech Team Director at SmartStudy since 2017 he championed Node.js adoption to build scalable systems, following leadership roles at Chegg (zinc.cn) and earlier hands-on development and project ownership in China. He combines solution ownership, project management, and active coding—comfortable moving between architecture decisions and sprint-level delivery. Richard has a strong foundation from Harbin Institute of Technology in Computer Science and a track record of recruiting and growing teams while overcoming technical hurdles. Known for a pragmatic "Just do it" approach and a relentless work ethic hinted by his GitHub motto "No way to stop running," he balances speed with steady operational improvements. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex requirements into practical, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
本科, 计算机科学与技术, 本科, 计算机科学与技术 at 哈尔滨工业大学
English, Chinese
Github Skills (157)
yargs10
trello10
dns10
command-line-tool10
markdown10
javascript10
jquery10
mod-manager10
linux10
tauri10
youtube10
clojure10
knowledge-management10
knowledge-graph10
crossword10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vipzhicheng/logseq-plugin-mark-map
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
This is a plugin for https://github.com/logseq/logseq to provide mindmap support based on https://github.com/markmap/markmap.
Contributions:15 releases, 213 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
logseqmarkmaploggingmindmapplugin
vipzhicheng/logseq-plugin-vim-shortcuts
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Add part of VIM key bindings experience to Logseq
Contributions:7 releases, 126 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
keybindingsvim
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