Vinson Yip
Software Engineer
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolVinson Yip is a pragmatic software engineer based in Hong Kong with around nine years of professional experience and 2.5+ years focused on building robust, scalable applications across finance, GIS, and IoT domains. He bridges full-stack development and cloud/container workflows, having modernized APIs with Go, improved login throughput by 700%, and delivered Redis-based caching and observability pipelines to accelerate incident diagnosis. His background includes significant C#/.NET and GIS work—automating electoral district tools and migrating legacy ArcMap systems to ArcGIS Pro—alongside mobile client work in Flutter and performance-focused Java tooling. Vinson combines hands-on optimization (API and stored-procedure speedups up to thousands-fold in stress tests) with product-facing features like Bond APIs and admin tooling, showing an ability to move projects from prototype to production. He holds an MS in Computer Science (Financial Stream) from The University of Hong Kong and often gravitates toward reusable, maintainable system designs that cut operational friction. A self-driven problem solver, he quietly applies cross-disciplinary skills (crypto-based auth, observability, and container orchestration) to tackle high-impact engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer engineering, Second Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer engineering, Second Class Honours at 香港大学The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Github contributions (5)
vinsonyaobo/spring-cloud-config-learning
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
vinsonyaobo/design-pattern
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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