Summary
Yuan Yao is a Senior Android Engineer based in London with nine years of hands-on mobile development experience across startups and large teams. He has led Android architecture and accessibility improvements at Sky, built core features and UI libraries at Procore, and shipped indie apps using Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose while running a small studio. Comfortable across architecture, CI/CD, testing and both imperative and declarative UIs, he’s delivered end-to-end modules, advocated dark theme and accessibility, and presented findings on new frameworks to teams. Yuan pairs an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from UCL with a CS degree from UC Santa Barbara, bringing a user-focused lens to engineering trade-offs. Notably, he has experience transitioning teams to modern pipelines and helped scale mobile products from prototypes to production with solid test automation. He’s currently expanding his impact at Deliveroo, continuing to blend product sensibility with pragmatic, maintainable Android engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
University College London
English, Chinese