Yao Lu
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYao Lu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native UIs and delivery pipelines, currently shaping Snowflake’s engineering efforts from Sunnyvale. He brings deep front-end and full-stack expertise honed at Google and VMware, where he led Angular migrations, designed OAuth2 flows, and built high-performance GitLab CI/CD for cloud deployments. Comfortable across the stack, Yao has a track record of improving performance and operability—once cutting server response times by 90% for an IoT-focused backend—and delivering production-grade features for large-scale enterprise products. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from NC State and balances rigorous engineering with a curiosity for new technologies and practical problem-solving. Colleagues rely on him for focused, high-quality execution on complex UI and cloud integration challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Tianjin University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (46)
css10
clarity10
chrome10
nodejs10
javascript9
accessibility9
linux9
typescript9
windows9
macos9
js9
html9
angular8
scalable8
component-library8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yaooluu/clarity
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
UX guidelines, HTML/CSS framework, and Angular components working together to craft exceptional experiences
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
cssangular-componentscraftexperiencesguidelines
yaooluu/csc517proj1
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:16 pushes in 14 days
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