Wesley Yu
VP Of Engineering at Metalab
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolWesley Yu is a seasoned VP of Engineering with 11+ years building web, mobile, and backend systems for startups and Fortune 50 clients across regulated industries like healthcare, finance, education, and real estate. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (TypeScript, React/React Native, Node, Go, GraphQL, Rails) with people leadership—scaling teams, shaping architecture, and turning complex legal/technical workflows into elegant, usable products. Wesley has led engineering organizations at Metalab and Course Studio while managing multi-million dollar client engagements and product delivery. He's an active contributor to open-source observability tooling (Sensu Go), where he enhanced GraphQL APIs and integrated backend features with embedded web UI assets. Based in Victoria, BC, he pairs a photographer’s eye for beautiful design with a pragmatic approach to planning: plan thoughtfully, iterate fearlessly.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree Business Administration & Marketing, Associate's Degree Business Administration & Marketing at Camosun CollegeBachelor's Degree Professional Communications, Bachelor's Degree Professional Communications at Royal Roads UniversityDiploma in Visual Communications Professional Photography, Diploma in Visual Communications Professional Photography at Western Academy of PhotographyWeb Development, Web Development at Lighthouse Labs
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (20)
sensu10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
schema-design10
wpgraphql10
go10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
golang10
graphql10
backend10
monitoring8
observability7
distributed-systems6
devops5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sensu/sensu-go
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 12 commits, 17 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Sensu Go project, focusing on enhancements related to the GraphQL API. They implemented features for querying and deleting handlers through the GraphQL endpoint, updated the schema to support these changes, and created the necessary resolvers. Additionally, the user was involved in updating the embedded web application assets and modifying the mutation to add an 'upsert' parameter. These changes indicate a focus on API design, resource management, and integrating back-end features with the user interface.
golangscalablereactdevopsinfrastructure
wesleycyu/wesleycyu.github.io
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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