Kevin Yao
Product Engineer at PicnicAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Yao is a product-focused full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable consumer and platform systems from prototype to production in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently at PicnicAI after leading engineering at AllStripes, he has deep experience modernizing stacks (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Kotlin) and driving frontend performance, CI/CD, and monitoring practices. At Expedia he architected high-throughput UGC APIs, automated moderation with ML to cut costs, and built award-winning real-time collaboration projects that he maintained as long-running side products. He combines hands-on coding, product sensibility, and mentorship—helping teams adopt standards and ship reliable features. His dual BA in Computer Science and Statistics underpins a data-informed approach to engineering and product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science and BA, Statistics, BA, Computer Science and BA, Statistics at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (21)
backend10
graphql-api9
object-storage9
parse9
nodejs9
relay9
mongodb9
rest-api9
parse-server8
graphql8
file-storage8
pdf-files8
pdf8
parse-platform8
mbaas7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kzmeyao/sando
Feb 2019 - Jan 2026
Travel journal
Contributions:16 PRs, 202 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years
journaltraveltravel-journal
kzmeyao/spectra
Oct 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:26 commits in 7 months
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