Suan Yeo
Staff Software Engineer (Payments) at AppFolio, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSuan Yeo is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in payments with 16 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across startups, public companies, and SMBs. Based in Seattle, he blends user-focused discovery with pragmatic, "simple and boring" engineering to solve core business problems and ship predictable outcomes. He’s led cross-functional teams and rebuilt legacy platforms—introducing automated DB migrations, log aggregation, and deploy mechanisms that measurably improved velocity and stability. Technically versatile across Ruby/Rails, Java, React/GraphQL, Elixir, and cloud platforms, he also contributes to open-source tooling like the vim-instant-markdown plugin to improve developer workflows. Known for listening well and distilling complexity into minimal solutions, he thrives where product, operations, and engineering intersect.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Taylor's CollegeBSc, Computer Engineering, BSc, Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Chinese, Malay
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Github Skills (4)
plugin-development10
vim10
markdown10
markdown-it10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
instant-markdown/vim-instant-markdown
Feb 2012 - Nov 2016
Instant Markdown previews from Vim
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Suan primarily contributed to the Vim plugin "instant-markdown" by enhancing its functionality and fixing bugs. Their work focused on improving how the plugin interacts with Markdown files within Vim, including handling new files, switching buffers, and setting the file type. They also implemented features like refreshing the preview and adding support for different file extensions like ".mdown," and introduced configuration options.
previewsmarkdownviminstant
suan/git-sanity
Mar 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 2 years 9 months
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