Tim Yao
Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff at NaperWriMo
Naperville, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTim Yao is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Nokia with over a decade of experience shaping DevOps, tools architecture, and systems engineering in telecommunications. He led the One Nokia DevOps Story initiative and, as a certified SAFe Program Consultant, harmonizes delivery practices across large portfolios while coaching teams to adopt Lean-Agile and DevOps principles. His background spans innovation leadership, vendor and project management, and test automation, enabling him to bridge strategy and hands-on engineering. Tim pairs strong organizational and change-management skills with a habit of sharing knowledge and mentoring multidisciplinary teams. He holds advanced degrees in civil engineering with a PhD focused on structural risk and reliability, bringing a rigorous, analytical perspective to software and systems problems. Outside work he volunteers as co-Municipal Liaison for NaNoWriMo, leading a local writers’ community—a hint at his creativity and commitment to sustained, goal-driven projects.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Civil Engineering (Structural Risk and Reliability), PhD, Civil Engineering (Structural Risk and Reliability) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (22)
markdown10
open-source10
methodology10
commons7
vimperator6
keyboard-shortcuts5
todolist4
vim3
shell3
cli3
text-editor3
vim-plugin3
chrome-extension2
javascript2
react2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NewMexicoKid/InnerSourceCommons
Jun 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
NewMexicoKid/vimrc
Oct 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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