Zachary Yao
Software Engineer at Nextdoor
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Yao is a seasoned software engineer based in Berkeley with over a decade of experience building large-scale e-commerce and enterprise systems across Alibaba, startups, and US tech companies. He blends hands-on full-stack development with architecture and team leadership, having driven Ruby-to-Scala migrations, microservices, and platform services at companies like Loyal3, LendingClub, Credit Karma, and Nextdoor. Comfortable across cloud environments (GCP/AWS), CI/CD tooling, and infrastructure services, he also contributes to open-source UI work—improving Ant Design Blazor’s notification, modal, and Select components. Known for turning complex requirements into pragmatic modules and tooling, he pairs systems thinking with a developer-first mindset. Outside of work he’s an amateur soccer player, drummer and Advanced Open Water diver, signaling a curiosity for hands-on, team-oriented challenges.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Hangzhou No.2 High SchoolBC, Plastics and Polymer Engineering Technology/Technician, BC, Plastics and Polymer Engineering Technology/Technician at Zhejiang University
mandarin, english
Github Skills (18)
ui-components10
blazor10
front-end-development10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
blazor-server10
modals9
css9
modal-dialog9
modalview9
html9
modal-windows9
antd7
javascript7
net7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ant-design-blazor/ant-design-blazor
May 2020 - Nov 2022
🌈A rich set of enterprise-class UI components based on Ant Design and Blazor.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 153 commits, 83 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zachary focused on adding and refining the notification component within the Ant Design Blazor library. Their work included implementing new notification features, such as customizable icons, buttons, and positions, along with updating and refactoring existing notification functionality to improve performance and resolve bugs. They also modified the display and behavior of modal and drawer components, including scrollbar handling and animation transitions, and ensured the integration of the localization. Moreover, the user contributed to adding the component Message and enhancing the Select component.
enterpriseblazor-serverdotnetblazor-interopblazor-webassembly
zxyao145/BcdLib
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:45 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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