Yihao Gao
Software Engineer at Vero
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolYihao Gao is a full-stack software engineer based in Sydney with eight years of experience building business and consumer-facing applications. He has delivered production systems across startups and enterprise environments, from a greenfield SaaS product used by hospitality businesses to security-focused dashboards at Macquarie built with Go backends and React frontends. Skilled in refactoring legacy code, raising automated test coverage to 70%+, and automating AWS deployments with CloudFormation, he blends pragmatic engineering with strong collaboration and mentoring—having led a TypeScript transition and supported onboarding. At Vero and Scalapay he continued to apply this mix of backend, frontend and deployment expertise to solve complex business problems. Notably, his Cache.bi project became a daily tool for multiple high-turnover clients, reflecting an ability to ship durable, revenue-generating software.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Honours degree Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), Honours degree Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) at University of South Australia
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
component-library10
vuejs210
browser10
radix-ui10
static-site-generator10
dokku10
css10
appseed10
radix10
kubernetes10
web-vitals10
http-mock10
vue-component10
lifecycle10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Yihao-G/UniSATimetableExporter
Jul 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
getvero/ember-auto-import
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Zero config import from npm packages
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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