# Raymond Yao

> Senior Software Developer at West Monroe, LLC

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raymondyao

Experienced Frontend Engineer - most recently working in Angular, React, and React Native.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ West Monroe, LLC
Jan 2022 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States
Currently contracted to Experian PLC as a Front End Angular developer:
- converting AngularJS legacy applications and pages into hybrid AngularJS/Angular apps, and eventually fully Angular
- creating new components and pages for the Experian mobile app and website
- working primarily in Angular and TypeScript

### Open Source Contributor @ GitHub
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
devCache | App for storage of code blocks
- Integrated React-Redux as a centralized state management library into legacy codebase, avoiding unnecessary multi-level prop-drilling and modularizing React component for improved maintainability of codebase 
- Utilized Bcrypt middlewares for secure storage of passwords in database to protect against potential rainbow attacks

CodeSprint | Software Engineer | Educational tool for developers
- Implemented Redis as an in-memory key-value store to temporarily cache expensive query results, minimizing the number of costly round trips made to the SQL database, resulting in balanced server load and reduced user latency 
- Employed a SQL database by storing information within relational tables of data, allowing for complex queries that compress multiple transactions, in order to more efficiently organize data and compile  

CalSavvy | Software Engineer | App for logging calories
- Used React Hooks to facilitate component logic reusability, leading to a cleaner codebase for improved maintainability
- Architected NodeJS/Express server with customized middleware to expedite data flow between endpoints and clients
- Deployed a NoSQL database for its schemaless data storage to facilitate data replication and partition for scalability

### Software Engineer @ MuninRPC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Used React 16.3+ to create a single page application with dynamic rendering and no page/app refreshes, to ensure a smooth and easy-to-use user experience
- Deployed React-Redux by setting up a centralized store with read-only properties that are only mutable through pure functions, in order to enforce a single source of truth and to allow for a deterministic data flow throughout the app
- Created Redux-Thunk middleware to make asynchronous dispatches to a gRPC server on an uninterrupted stream, updating the centralized state with incoming responses in order to maintain a single source of truth
- Serialized data within the Node.js environment by using its file system module to translate .proto files into Javascript code, enabling JSON objects to be transferred via a protocol buffer binary stream to expedite data transmission
- Utilized Google’s gRPC Remote Procedure Call API to efficiently parse and aggregate data by invoking functions on a remote server, effectively offloading the processing burden from local machines while maintaining data integrity
- Used Electron in Node.js to create an intuitive client-facing testing tool with cross-platform compatibility
- Developed in Typescript for its static typing to improve debugging experience and future codebase scalability
- Applied Sass CSS variables and partial files to create modularized stylesheets for different React components, enhancing codebase readability and improving upwards scalability of application stylesheets
- Constructed Jest and Enzyme testing suites to ensure reliable and consistent application functionality

(Open-source tool developed at CS Labs)

### Senior Stats Specialist @ The Rubicon Project
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles, CA
- Managed a SQL relational database for its ability to guarantee isolation of transactions and consistency of data
- Leveraged a proprietary automated data scraper to asynchronously aggregate data from various custom website APIS
- Lead a team through all daily tasks and processes
- Interviewed new hires and trained new employees


## Education
### Full Stack Software Engineering
Codesmith
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics/Economics
UCLA
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raymondyao51
- Website: https://rocaray.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22