Summary
Yong Bin Gao is a software engineer in New York with 10 years of technical experience who turns ideas into polished web products, primarily using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and React/Redux. He currently builds production systems at DailyPay and previously led full-stack development and API integrations for GoPlan, designing MVPs, scalable CRUD components, and media workflows with Firebase, AWS S3, and cloud functions. His background in mechanical engineering and years at NYSDOT give him a systems-oriented approach to problem solving and experience coordinating stakeholders and delivering projects on tight constraints. As a former App Academy TA, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring and pragmatic architecture choices. Outside work he channels the same focus into rock climbing, a pursuit that informs his iterative, improvement-driven engineering style.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng / Bachelor of science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng / Bachelor of science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Web Development, Web Development at App Academy
Chinese, Chinese