Michael Yao is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of experience building payment and enterprise systems, currently shaping developer-friendly Cadence Workflow integrations at Indeed from Austin. He has deep e-commerce and payments domain expertise from roles at HomeAway and multiple Indeed teams, pairing backend Java and search experience with practical front-end tooling for engineers. Known for clear-eyed troubleshooting ("have you tried turning it off and on again?"), he favors making complex, quirky systems easy for others to adopt. His background includes hands-on support leadership at UT Austin, which informs a user-focused approach to internal developer tools and cross-team collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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