Tya Cao
Senior Developer at REA Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTya Cao is a Senior Developer based in Melbourne with 9 years of experience building cloud-native Scala services and user-focused web experiences. She blends a background in communication design and UX with deep expertise in functional Scala (Cats, http4s) to deliver robust search and publishing pipelines at REA Group. Her work has improved map-based property search, address autocomplete, and regular auction results delivery, and she’s taught internal Scala and FP training for over two years. Comfortable across the stack—React frontends, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS—she prioritises elegant, useful products that improve people’s lives. An avid learner, she transitioned from design into engineering via General Assembly and continues to explore advanced functional programming patterns.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBachelor of Communication Design, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Communication Design, Graphic Design at Swinburne University of Technology
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (7)
extensible10
scala9
modular9
tagless-final9
functional-programming9
spring-boot3
java3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Ttcao/intro-to-scala
Apr 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
Ttcao/introduction-to-fp-in-scala
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
scalapatterns
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