Jason Yu

• Lead key initiatives on the Merchant Finance & Tax Platform, improving payment accuracy and transparency for multi-million daily transactions.

• Boosted platform reliability through automated anomaly detection, CI/CD improvements, and adoption of a modern testing framework.

• Streamlined tax reconciliation and reporting, enhancing the customer experience for merchants.

• Mentored junior engineers via code/design reviews and technical coaching, improving team effectiveness and growth.

• Delivered 8+ core finance/tax products in collaboration with 5+ cross-functional teams annually.

• Wrote 50+ internal technical guides, playbooks, and wikis to support engineering operations.

• Proactively led security assessments, uncovering and remediating vulnerabilities across 4+ teams.

• Mentored interns, helping bridge academic learning with real-world engineering practices.

• Founding member of the Merchant Finance Platform team; built the platform from the ground up.

• Spearheaded a successful 1.5-year migration from monolith to microservices, reducing system complexity and improving scalability.

• Resolved critical finance bugs and reconciled historical data to meet IPO compliance requirements.

• Developed and deployed interactive Python tutorials using Jupyter Notebooks, enabling real-time collaboration between students and resulting in a 40% increase in student engagement.

• Architected and implemented a secure student portal using Flask Framework, featuring SSO authentication, role-based access control, and personalized dashboards serving 500+ active users.

• Led security assessment initiatives including penetration testing, identifying and patching 3 critical vulnerabilities before deployment.

• Led weekly Java programming lectures and interactive Q&A sessions for 50+ students, maintaining a 95% attendance rate across 9 weekly contact hours.

• Designed and delivered a comprehensive curriculum covering data structures, algorithms, and dynamic programming, resulting in an 85% average improvement in student assessment scores.

• Mentored 40+ students through hands-on labs and projects, providing detailed code reviews and personalized feedback that helped achieve a 90% project completion rate.