Roderick Yao
Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager at Uber
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoderick Yao is a senior staff tech leader with 11 years building data platforms and cloud solutions across Google, Slack, and Uber, now leading teams as Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends hands-on engineering and architecture with people leadership, guiding large-scale open source data platform initiatives and bridging product, infra, and developer experience. His background spans cloud strategy, solutions consulting, and software engineering—from early roles at Cloudera and Attivio to multi-year impact at Google—giving him a rare mix of enterprise sales-facing insight and deep technical delivery. Roderick holds a Master’s in Information Technology from Bentley and a Computer Science bachelor’s from South China University of Technology, equipping him to translate complex business needs into scalable systems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and systems-minded, skilled at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, production-grade platforms. He often brings less-visible strengths to the table—technical mentorship and cross-functional influence that accelerate team velocity and adoption of open standards.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Information Technology, Master, Information Technology at Bentley University - McCallum Graduate School of BusinessBachelor, Engineering; Computer Science, Bachelor, Engineering; Computer Science at South China University of Technology
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (65)
data-stream10
google-cloud-platform10
dataflow10
python10
google-cloud-dataflow10
bigtable10
gcp10
automation10
google-cloud10
google-cloud-ml10
clustering10
sqf10
data-loss-prevention10
scale10
sql10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudDataproc/hive-bigquery-storage-handler
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Hive Storage Handler for interoperability between BigQuery and Apache Hive
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 1 month
gcpgooglebigqueryapacheinteroperability
yhqs540/CloudSQL2BQ
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:34 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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