Willie Yao
Head Of Engineering at Greylock
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWillie Yao is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building resilient infrastructure and developer platforms at fast-growing consumer tech companies. Currently Head of Engineering at Clay and a Greylock scout, he previously led Infrastructure and Enterprise/Infrastructure initiatives at Notion and ran developer infrastructure at Airbnb during periods of rapid scale. Willie’s strengths are solving longstanding operational challenges—improving uptime, scalability, and developer productivity—while aligning engineering work with GTM and CX needs. He has hands-on experience with observability at extreme scale, automated deploy pipelines, and onboarding large user bases and engineering orgs. Based in New York with a Harvard CS background, he pairs deep technical judgment with talent development, having designed internship and calibration programs that launched many engineering careers. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who combines pragmatic fixes with durable architectural improvements.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Harvard University
Chinese
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Github Skills (8)
credentials7
api6
dynamodb6
aws5
signaling4
wait4
terraform3
infrastructure3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
wyao/petrel-os
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:229 commits in 3 months
airbnb/cryo
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 months
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