Steven Yao
Software Engineer at Old Mission
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Yao is a software engineer based in Chicago with 13 years of hands-on experience building high-performance backend systems and cross-chain applications. He has shipped production services at major tech firms and internships including Amazon and Google, and contributed to blockchain and low-latency trading tech at Jump Trading using Solidity, Rust, and C++. At Google he implemented a Golang RESTful ad server deployed on GKE, and at Amazon he scaled a Java-based backend with Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB. Currently at Old Mission, he continues to work across distributed systems and cloud-native deployments. With a research background in nanomaterials that produced peer-reviewed publications, he brings an experimental, data-driven mindset to engineering problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who smoothly navigates both research labs and production environments.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, 4.0, High School Diploma, Computer Science, 4.0 at Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
Github Skills (7)
opencc6
encoder5
translation5
golang5
chinese-simplified4
qtcreator4
qt1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stevenyao/go-opencc
Jan 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
golangopencc
stevenyao/qencoder
Jan 2015 - Dec 2020
Qt Media Encoder GUI
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years
encoderqt5guimedia-encoder
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