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I am Peter Yao, a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend engineering, distributed systems, and AI-powered workflow solutions. I design scalable services and reliable platforms that enable operational decision-making, automation, and high-performance analytics across enterprise environments. I thrive turning complex business needs into stable, maintainable software while guiding teams through technical initiatives and best practices. Over my career at Primer.ai, Temporal Technologies, and Google, I have built end-to-end systems—from data pipelines and AI inference engines to observability, security, and release processes. I enjoy mentoring engineers, improving reliability and performance, and delivering impactful technology that drives real-world outcomes.…I am Peter Yao, a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend engineering, distributed systems, and AI-powered workflow solutions. I design scalable services and reliable platforms that enable operational decision-making, automation, and high-performance analytics across enterprise environments. I thrive turning complex business needs into stable, maintainable software while guiding teams through technical initiatives and best practices. Over my career at Primer.ai, Temporal Technologies, and Google, I have built end-to-end systems—from data pipelines and AI inference engines to observability, security, and release processes. I enjoy mentoring engineers, improving reliability and performance, and delivering impactful technology that drives real-world outcomes.

Peter Yao

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I am Peter Yao, a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend engineering, distributed systems, and AI-powered workflow solutions. I design scalable services and reliable platforms that enable operational decision-making, automation, and high-performance analytics across enterprise environments. I thrive turning complex business needs into stable, maintainable software while guiding teams through technical initiatives and best practices. Over my career at Primer.ai, Temporal Technologies, and Google, I have built end-to-end systems—from data pipelines and AI inference engines to observability, security, and release processes. I enjoy mentoring engineers, improving reliability and performance, and delivering impactful technology that drives real-world outcomes.…I am Peter Yao, a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend engineering, distributed systems, and AI-powered workflow solutions. I design scalable services and reliable platforms that enable operational decision-making, automation, and high-performance analytics across enterprise environments. I thrive turning complex business needs into stable, maintainable software while guiding teams through technical initiatives and best practices. Over my career at Primer.ai, Temporal Technologies, and Google, I have built end-to-end systems—from data pipelines and AI inference engines to observability, security, and release processes. I enjoy mentoring engineers, improving reliability and performance, and delivering impactful technology that drives real-world outcomes.

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I am Peter Yao, a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend engineering, distributed systems, and AI-powered workflow solutions. I design scalable services and reliable platforms that enable operational decision-making, automation, and high-performance analytics across enterprise environments. I thrive turning complex business needs into stable, maintainable software while guiding teams through technical initiatives and best practices.

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Senior Software Engineer at Primer.ai

February 1, 2023 - March 1, 2026

Delivered and advanced AI-driven analytics platforms and backend systems for operational decision-making, workflow automation, and high-impact enterprise workflows. Built analyst-facing interfaces with Angular, introduced LLM-powered capabilities for search, summarization, and structured data extraction, and assembled production RAG pipelines using LangChain, Pinecone, and FAISS to improve data accessibility across millions of records. Engineered scalable microservices and REST APIs across 30 endpoints; modernized AWS data pipelines; established inference orchestration, validation, retry, and monitoring to ensure reliability; supported multimodal analysis; optimized PostgreSQL, Redis, and service communication to reduce latency; packaging with Docker and Kubernetes and strengthened CI/CD with Jenkins; improved observability and incident response.

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Temporal Technologies

April 1, 2019 - December 1, 2022

Architected high-throughput backend services in Java and Spring Boot, integrating gRPC and Apache Kafka to support large-scale distributed workflow execution, achieving low-latency operations. Built internal tooling and workflow visibility interfaces with TypeScript and React for clearer monitoring; refined microservices for orchestration under peak loads (~7,000 requests/sec); automated backend tasks using AWS Lambda; ensured data integrity with MongoDB and Oracle; standardized infrastructure with Terraform; hardened security with RBAC and AES-256; owned 10+ Go backend services; scaled DynamoDB-based state storage; unified logging with the ELK stack; implemented Prometheus-based monitoring and SLOs; used Protobuf, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch for history and search.

Software Developer at Google

November 1, 2016 - March 1, 2019

Accelerated core API development with Node.js, improving test coverage and reducing server latency by 150ms on high-traffic services. Implemented performance-sensitive components in C++ and Python; developed responsive UI components with React; used SQLite for local development and Snowflake for analytics; optimized caching with Redis; codified infrastructure provisioning with Terraform; participated in code reviews and system design to maintain reliability; designed scalable storage patterns using Bigtable and Spanner for high-volume operational data.