William Yao
Senior Software Engineer at Gopher
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Yao is a multidisciplinary creative technologist and founder blending a decade of full-stack engineering with immersive AR/VR storytelling and live performance production. He has led large distributed teams to deliver award-winning films, music videos and sold-out live shows—including creative direction on Grimes' Coachella 2024—and has been featured at Cannes XR for innovative narrative work. Technically fluent from front-end React fixes to mobile AR integrations, he shipped consumer-facing features at scale (Bloomberg, Wayfair) and contributed UI improvements to a high-use student scheduling app with hundreds of thousands of timetables. Comfortable toggling between choreography and code, he builds commercial go-to-market strategies while creating job pathways for emerging creatives across film and dance.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityJ.N Burnett
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
react10
html9
css9
responsive-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
noahpresler/semesterly
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Your Semester Made Easier | Course Scheduling & Social Tools for Students
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:135 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, fixing bugs related to UI elements and the overall user experience. They made changes to the styling of the website, updating the responsiveness on smaller screens, and added an alert box for the friend-finding feature. The user also updated code in the React UI components and modified the press page to improve the overall layout and presentation.
javascriptschedulingcourse-schedulingsemester
thewilliamyao/Personal-Website
Apr 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 114 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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