Wendy Yao is a Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently developing at Serato after progressing from a junior role there. She brings practical full-stack experience from internships and university projects, including APIs, databases, CI/CD, and AI-powered web apps using Azure Cognitive Services. Wendy is comfortable leading teams—she served as Scrum Master during a Datacom internship—and has taught object-oriented software construction as a university teaching assistant. Her background spans MATLAB image processing research for pediatric eye screening to product-focused backend development, showing range from academic R&D to production systems. A lifelong learner, she studies Chinese and Korean in her spare time and enjoys tackling design challenges with a karate-inspired "never give up" mindset. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, she blends cross-cultural communication skills with hands-on engineering discipline.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE(Hons), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE(Hons), Software Engineering at The University of Auckland
NCEA Level 1-3, Endorsed with Excellence, NCEA Level 1-3, Endorsed with Excellence at Pakuranga College
Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin Chinese at Jinyu Chinese Language School
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
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