Summary
Yan Yao is a senior mobile product engineer with 13 years of experience building internet and mobile products, currently leading hybrid app development and architecture at Xiaomi in Beijing. He combines deep front-end expertise (ES2015, WebComponents, JavaScript) with backend and search experience from earlier roles where he built search APIs, crawlers, and logging/analytics systems using Python and open-source tools. At Xiaomi he drives component-driven Android interfaces, supports market operations, and oversees code review and merge processes, reflecting both hands-on coding and team leadership. His career spans major Chinese platforms including Taobao and Hainei, giving him strong product instincts and performance-focused front-end skills. Colleagues rely on him for improving developer workflows via Unix scripting and for mentoring around continuous learning and cutting-edge web-tech adoption.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer