Edison Yap
Senior Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdison Yap is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with nine years building payments, KYC, and wallet systems across fintech and consumer products. Currently a Team Lead at Fresha, he architects microservices and payments domains, led a cross-functional KYC platform replacement, and champions developer productivity tools like mirrord to accelerate delivery. He brings hands-on experience from Klarna to Fave designing bank integrations, performance observability, and deprecated legacy systems while mentoring and onboarding engineers. As founder of Slick Inbox he combines product sensibility with technical execution, running an active privacy-focused newsletter app with ~800 users. Known for empathetic leadership and a knack for cutting unnecessary workflow friction, he focuses on shipping maintainable systems that reduce support overhead.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Summer Intensive Studies, Computer Science, Stanford Summer Intensive Studies, Computer Science at Stanford UniversityBachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghPTPI Leadership in Action, Leadership Programme, PTPI Leadership in Action, Leadership Programme at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology at RMIT University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Swedish
Github Skills (183)
mobile-development10
web-application10
windows10
ruby10
state-machine10
app-framework10
webapp10
liveview10
dart10
elixir10
typescript10
rails10
cross-platform10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
edisonywh/backoffice
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Admin tool built with the PETAL stack
Contributions:7 reviews, 89 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 6 months
adminphoenix-frameworkliveviewelixirphoenix-liveview
edisonywh/stingray
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Stingray is a modern, beautiful Hacker News reader app built in Flutter.
Contributions:4 reviews, 73 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
flutter
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