Sze Yick
Staff Engineer at Uber
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSze Yick is a Staff Engineer with over 12 years' experience building real-time, safety-critical distributed systems for air traffic management and large-scale consumer platforms. With a Master's in Computer Science and a track record leading innovation teams at Thales, he has taken concepts from feasibility studies to production components used in TopSky deployments across 150+ countries. Now at Uber, he focuses on designing and implementing robust Java-based systems and algorithms that operate under strict reliability constraints. He combines deep systems design experience with hands-on implementation and a penchant for practical prototyping—evident in personal projects like a sensor-driven Smart Greenhouse and Alexa-enabled Smart Pi—demonstrating curiosity about applied IoT and user-facing integrations. Based in New York, he brings an unusual blend of safety-critical discipline and product-minded experimentation to scalable engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
RowvilleMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA - 3.4, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA - 3.4 at Swinburne University of TechnologyBachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Japanese Linguistics, History, Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Japanese Linguistics, History at Monash University
English, Japanese, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
szeyick/codingQuestions
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:96 commits, 87 pushes in 2 years 7 months
szeyick/dataStructures
Jul 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 7 pushes, 8 issues in 3 years 10 months
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