Wei Yao
Sr. Software Engineer at ELKROOM
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Yao is a senior software engineer based in Tokyo with 9 years of hands-on experience and a strong focus on Android development, architecture design, and clean, maintainable code. He has led migrations from view-based UIs to Jetpack Compose, improved live-streaming performance at scale, and contributed UI/theming enhancements to the DroidKaigi 2021 app including dark mode and shared text utilities. Comfortable across the stack, Wei also helps run backend infrastructure on GCP (Node.js, Python, K8s, Terraform) and automates CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery. Fluent in Kotlin and Android best practices, he brings practical cross-team collaboration skills from experience with React, frontend frameworks, and real-time systems. An engineer who cares about developer experience, he has reduced CI build times by over 50% and introduced observability and bots to catch crashes proactively.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology
Github Skills (5)
kotlin10
theme-development10
jetpack-compose10
ui-design10
android10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DroidKaigi/conference-app-2021
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
The Official App for DroidKaigi 2021
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:9 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Wei focused on enhancing the user interface and theming of the DroidKaigi 2021 application. Their contributions primarily involve implementing dark theme support across key screens such as the timetable and detail views. They also addressed styling issues, modifying colors to fit the design and fixing text color issues within the auto-linked text components. Furthermore, they refactored the code to use a common utility for auto-linked text.
jetpack-composejetpack-androidkotlin-multiplatformandroiddroidkaigi
yaoandy107/dotfile
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
My shell config.
Contributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 9 months
shell-configconfigdotfilesshellzsh
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