Summary
Runtao Yang is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building performant, secure web applications and internal tooling. At Gartner he has led full-stack projects using React, Node.js and Python, migrated APIs to GraphQL, and improved backend performance and deployment footprint through pragmatic refactors. He pairs frontend performance expertise—reducing load times and CPU usage—with a strong security mindset, having remediated over 100 vulnerabilities and tightened architecture decisions. A former sole frontend developer and instructor, he blends hands-on implementation with mentorship and user-centered research to deliver practical, maintainable solutions. His background in biomedical research gives him an unusual attention to experimental rigor and data integrity in production systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
HS, HS at Canyon Crest Academy
Bachelor of Arts Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor of Arts Biology/Biological Sciences General at Columbia University
Web Development, Web Development at App Academy
English, Chinese