Victor Yang
Staff Software Engineer at Luminate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Yang is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building customer-facing web platforms and leading engineering teams across e‑commerce and consumer product companies. He’s shipped end-to-end features, driven major infrastructure and performance improvements, and led splits from monolithic Rails apps to React+API architectures while optimizing SEO, accessibility, and page speed. Comfortable across JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and Python, he combines hands-on implementation with technical design, stakeholder management, and mentoring. Victor’s background in finance and consulting gives him a pragmatic, metrics-oriented approach to prioritizing tech debt and product tradeoffs. Now focused on expanding into engineering leadership, he aims to scale teams and systems that deliver meaningful user-facing experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at Dev BootcampUNIVERSITY OF MAASTRICHT MaastrichtBSc Finance Accounting, BSc Finance Accounting at NYU Stern School of Business
Github Skills (45)
origami9
facebook9
react8
imgix8
javascript8
testing8
src7
srcset7
development-machine6
react-component5
pattern5
drone-ci5
npm5
image4
nodejs4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CasperSleep/nightshade-icons
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
Casper's icon set and system for building digital products
Contributions:15 PRs, 23 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 11 months
feather-iconsworkspaceiconcasperdigital-products
victorwhy/brands
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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