Yujian Yao
Co-Founder at Floot
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYujian Yao is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with 13 years of experience building and refactoring complex product foundations, currently co-founding Floot after a recent stint at South Park Commons. He has a strong track record at scale—rewriting core runtimes and shipping major performance and stability improvements at Retool, and leading rich-text platform work at Asana that replaced legacy schemas and rebuilt editors. Known for moving fast while balancing quality and velocity, he excels at breaking down gnarly technical problems and mentoring teams to deliver durable solutions. Based in San Francisco and trained at the National University of Singapore, he combines systems-level thinking with product sensibility and a knack for turning “impossible” projects into shipped features.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
'A' Level General Paper Computing Physics Economics Mathematics, 'A' Level General Paper Computing Physics Economics Mathematics at Hwa Chong InstitutionBachelor of Computing Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (85)
html-editor10
spotify-api10
wysiwyg10
spotify10
javascript10
client-library10
browser10
rich-text10
quill10
compatibility10
nodejs10
text-editing10
contenteditable10
rte10
css10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yyjhao/yyjhao.github.com
Jul 2016 - Mar 2021
Source code of my personal website
Contributions:15 pushes in 4 years 9 months
nextjs
yyjhao/IVLEDownloader
Aug 2012 - Aug 2015
A daemon to download NUS IVLE workbins automatically.
Contributions:59 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
nusdaemonlinux
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