Summary
Steve Yang is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable backend platforms and data visualization products used daily by executives and large teams. Currently at Rippling, he focuses on analytics and reporting infrastructure that powers hundreds of thousands of dashboards and reports. His background spans payments and e-commerce (Bolt, Nav, Wish), database optimization (DB2 ML query optimizer at IBM, patent), and academic research in AI from Waterloo and Alberta. He combines production-grade engineering—service-oriented architectures, CI/CD, load testing—with research-driven problem solving and teaching experience. Comfortable across startups and large organizations, he brings both product-facing integrations and deep systems expertise to complex data and payment ecosystems. Colleagues would note his mix of rigorous CS foundations (high academic marks) and a preference for remote work that sustains sustained, focused output.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0 at University of Alberta
Master's degree, Computer Science, 88/100, Master's degree, Computer Science, 88/100 at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English