George Yu is a Senior Full-Stack & Mobile Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable backend systems using Node.js, combined with strong front-end and mobile development using React, React Native, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I have delivered end-to-end solutions across marketplace platforms, bioscience tooling, and government applications, designing microservices and cloud-native architectures. I enjoy shipping reliable, user-focused products across web, backend, and mobile, with a focus on real-time APIs and distributed data modeling using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka. I thrive in collaborative teams and have strong experience in cloud platforms and DevOps, AWS and GCP, and CI/CD pipelines.

George Yu

George Yu is a Senior Full-Stack & Mobile Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable backend systems using Node.js, combined with strong front-end and mobile development using React, React Native, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I have delivered end-to-end solutions across marketplace platforms, bioscience tooling, and government applications, designing microservices and cloud-native architectures. I enjoy shipping reliable, user-focused products across web, backend, and mobile, with a focus on real-time APIs and distributed data modeling using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka. I thrive in collaborative teams and have strong experience in cloud platforms and DevOps, AWS and GCP, and CI/CD pipelines.

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George Yu is a Senior Full-Stack & Mobile Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable backend systems using Node.js, combined with strong front-end and mobile development using React, React Native, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I have delivered end-to-end solutions across marketplace platforms, bioscience tooling, and government applications, designing microservices and cloud-native architectures.

I enjoy shipping reliable, user-focused products across web, backend, and mobile, with a focus on real-time APIs and distributed data modeling using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka. I thrive in collaborative teams and have strong experience in cloud platforms and DevOps, AWS and GCP, and CI/CD pipelines.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at TaskRabbit
April 1, 2021 - Present
Contributed to TaskRabbit’s tech platform powering an online marketplace that connects users with independent Taskers for home services. Developed backend APIs, integrating payment flows, tasker rating systems, and job matching logic in collaboration with platform product teams. Engineered polyglot persistence using PostgreSQL for payments/bookings and MongoDB for logs and real-time chats, optimizing both reliability and flexibility.
Software Engineer at Senti Biosciences
April 1, 2018 - March 1, 2021
Designed and developed the frontend of a biosciences tooling platform with ReactJS and Material-UI. Created custom React hooks to share reusable component logics for functional components. Constructed optimized database schemas and queries, improving data retrieval speed for large datasets. Used React-Vis to create dynamic and customizable graphs to facilitate data analysis for the users.
Independent Web Developer at Indie Dev
May 1, 2015 - November 1, 2018
Architected various full-stack web projects following MVC patterns. Implemented interactive features using CSS3 and JS while maintaining client-side performance. Worked with businesses and professional artists to develop web applications and business websites.
Software Engineer at Autoridad Nacional para la Innovación Gubernamental
April 1, 2014 - March 1, 2015
Constructed transportation lookup system for motorists to view their tickets. Architected a test database using MongoDB to handle storage of 2+ million driver records. Maintained 100% uptime of test database to ensure data integrity of web app in pre-production environment. Modeled drivers and tickets in MongoDB collections referenced by ID on Node.js and Express RESTful API.

Education

Bachelor in Computer Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
January 11, 2030 - March 1, 2015
Bachelor in Computer Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
January 11, 2030 - March 1, 2015
Bachelor in Computer Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
January 11, 2030 - March 1, 2015
Bachelor in Computer Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
January 11, 2030 - March 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Government, Life Sciences, Professional Services, Healthcare