About

About Me

Specialising in software development, I’ve amassed over 8y+ experience on Python/Java/C++ and 4y+ full-time SDE in big tech companies.

  • Name: Leo Yao
  • Date of Birth: Aug 1996
  • Address: Toronto Downtown Canada
  • Work Permit: Canada, US, and Taiwan
  • Email: Leoyao816@gmail.com
  • Phone: +1 4379731696

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Resume

With over 8y+ experience of software development and 4y+ work experience, I have contributed to different projects throughout the Full Life-Cycle Development of Software Product , ranging from cloud infrastructure, backend development, and machine learning. This exposure has significantly enhanced my proficiency in Python, Java, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Machine Learning , and more.

2022.05 - 2024.03

Software Engineer 2

Dell Technologies

Multi-Cloud Platform Team
Enhanced SaaS multi-cluster management solutions' rapid upgrade success rate by 16% through Hyper-Converged Infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation (VxRail, ranked #1 globally). Improved Upgrade Lifecycle Management stability to 84% using Docker and Kubernetes (RKE2). Achieved 90+ customer satisfaction by resolving over 50 issues with EFK, conducting root cause analyses, and working with global teams. Proposed four patents to optimize product performance using LLM and Logging Tracking (e.g., LocalGPT, RNN), with one currently being filed.

2022.07 - Present

Team Lead & Backend Developer

XChange Community Taiwan

Full-Stack Team
Developing two customized web services for Mentorship System by leading eleven people (4*Frontend, 7*Backend), prioritizing project alignment with timelines and budgets, and creating backend serverless architecture, APIs, and DB schema based on AWS and FastAPI/React.

2019.09 - 2020.06

Software Development Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Synergy Network Test Team
Elevated manual testing efficiency by 30% through achieving a test automation tool to verify server adapter networking functions (Ethernet, iSCSI, etc.) in OS servers (Windows, Red Hat, CentOS, VMware).

2018-2021

MSc in Computer Science

National Taiwan University

Robotics and Automatic Control Lab

  • Visiting Researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (Aug 2020 - Jan 2021).
  • Published 6 IEEE Conference and Journal Papers.
  • Won 3 National Project Competition Prizes.

2021.06 - 2022.05

Software Engineer

Garmin International

Automotive Development Team
Increased collaboration satisfaction with Toyota by creating a diagnostic tool application to monitor in-vehicle hardware on the Qualcomm Platform. Implemented Radio UI for 9-inch and 12-inch devices and a internal logging service that received positive feedback from 10+ engineers. Integrated media services (YouTube, KKbox), designed an automatic encryption mechanism, and utilized CI/CD with Gerrit and Jenkins. My manager praised my timely delivery and high-quality work, including developing five features and solving five critical issues within three months.

2021.07 - Present

Machine Learning Engineer

TaiDing Bio Coop.

AI Research
Collaborating with porcine geneticists to manage 3+ projects of customized systems for pig farms, developing a ML-based detection model for identifying pig behaviors using YOLOv7 and VideoMAE, deploying and maintaining the system, and contributing to publications.

2019.07 - 2019.08

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Trend Micro

Mail Security CoreTech Team
Identified fraudulent emails with 94% accuracy by designing three algorithms (Rule-based, LR, CNN) and extracting features from the transmission mechanisms in a dataset of 4.5 million emails.

2014-2018

BSc in Electronic and Computer

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

  • Exchange Program to Cebu, Philippine.
  • Won the Outstanding Youth Award (Top 1%).
  • Won 6 National Project Competition Prizes.
  • Piano Club activity organizer.

Research

Research

Published Publications in Top AI Conference/Journal for Natural Language Processing (100+ citations)

Skills

My Skills

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia

Python

90%

Java

85%

Backend (Django, Flask, FastAPI)

80%

Cloud Infra (AWS, VCF)

80%

Machine Learning (NLP, CV)

75%

Embedded System

60%
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I'm Available for freelancing

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Contact

Contact Me

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia

Address

Gerrard St E,Toronto, ON, Canada M4M 1Y3

Contact Number

+1 (437) 973 1696

Email Address

Leoyao816@gmail.com

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