Yao Yu
Senior Software Engineer at TikTok
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYao Yu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing Android apps and backend services, currently working at TikTok after a multi-year tenure at Wish. He has a track record of driving measurable product impact—leading efforts that improved add-to-cart rates, boosted GMV, and cut page load times through cross-team coordination and server-driven UI architecture. Comfortable spanning mobile, backend, and system performance work, he also owned release cycles, on-call responsibilities, and mentoring of contractors and FTEs. Trained at Carnegie Mellon and Beihang University, Yao blends strong academic foundations with practical engineering execution and a knack for turning platform-level improvements into better user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of ChinaBachelor's degree Software engineering, Bachelor's degree Software engineering at Beihang UniversityMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Github Skills (20)
animation10
android-ndk10
android-studio10
testing9
android-library9
dbms9
database9
database-management9
recyclerview8
expandable8
drag-and-drop8
android-image8
android7
mobile-application7
footer6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
skyfishjy/android-ripple-background
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
A beautiful ripple animation for your app
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
animation
cmu-mse-cmudb/terrier-issue-817
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
For the issue https://github.com/cmu-db/terrier/issues/817
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 6 days
cmuterrier
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