Daniel Yu - Resume

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Hands-on technologist who still writes code every day. 20+ years building systems, leading teams, and shipping products. Now achieving 10x productivity through AI-assisted development with Claude Code and Co-Pilot. I bridge the gap between deep technical execution and team leadership—equally comfortable architecting cloud infrastructure, pair-programming with AI, or mentoring the next generation of developers.

Experience

Caution Tape Robotics Club 2018 → Present

Master Shifu

Markham, ON

Founded youth STEM organization—coaching 100+ students annually
Led teams to 3 VEX World Championship titles (2019, 2021, 2023)
Pioneering AI-assisted coding curriculum using Claude Code
Teaching kids to build apps 10x faster with AI pair-programming

VEX RoboticsPythonC++Claude CodeTypeScript

CanSTEAM Foundation 2022 → Present

Board Secretary

Canada

Serving on board of directors for national STEAM education non-profit
Contributing to strategic planning and governance initiatives
Supporting programs that bring STEM education to underserved communities

TD Bank 2021 → 2025

Senior DevOps Consultant

Toronto, ON

Early adopter of AI-assisted development—doubled output with GitHub Co-Pilot
Designed fully automated CI/CD pipelines for enterprise MuleSoft projects
Built reusable pipeline libraries adopted across multiple teams
Hands-on coding: Groovy + Python automation frameworks
Mentored developers on AI-driven workflows and best practices

JenkinsPythonGroovyMuleSoftGitHub Co-Pilot

Royal Bank of Canada 2021

Hybrid API Consultant

Toronto, ON

Built Ansible playbooks for Redis, ELK, PingFederate, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry
Developed Node.js integration for ELK, Slack, ServiceNow
Led P1-P5 security/compliance investigations
Evaluated YugabyteDB and Backstage POCs

ApigeeAzureGCPKubernetesAnsibleELK

BeeShop Solutions Inc. 2020 → 2021

CTO

Toronto, ON

Leading technical strategy and architecture for e-commerce platform
Designed serverless architecture using Azure Functions and Cosmos DB
Developed cross-platform mobile application with React Native
Implemented CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments

Azure FunctionsCosmos DBReact NativeNode.jsTypeScript

InfraDog Inc. 2019 → 2021

CTO, Co-Founder

Toronto, ON

Built Azure DevOps pipelines for CI/CD automation across client projects
Designed Elasticsearch + Kibana monitoring solutions on Azure
Led technical architecture discussions and infrastructure planning
Developed Terraform modules for Azure infrastructure automation
Containerized workloads with Docker and orchestrated with Kubernetes
Mentored junior team members on DevOps practices

AzureAzure DevOpsTerraformDockerKafkaKubernetes

Orthotic Holdings Inc. 2016 → 2019

Director, IT Operations

Markham, ON

Managed IT team of 4 supporting 500+ employees across 9 branches
Initiated and led cloud migration project to Azure Kubernetes
Led Office 365 migration for entire organization
Deployed ADFS and implemented SSO across enterprise applications
Designed real-time chat app with GCP Firebase + Apigee Edge
Led Disaster Recovery planning and implementation

AzureKubernetesDockerTerraformAzure FunctionsFirebaseOffice 365

IBM 2010 → 2016

System Management Specialist

Markham, ON

Deployed Microsoft SCOM for TD, Rogers, Government of Manitoba, Manulife, ATB Financial
Enterprise change management processes

Earlier Positions 1998 → 2010

Systrend Solutions Inc. - Principal Consultant (2003-2010)
Duracraft Canada Inc. - Software Development Manager (2001-2009)
etang.com Inc. - Software Development Manager (1999-2001) - $45M startup
Primeon Inc. - Software Engineer (1998-1999)

Skills

AI & Tools Claude Code • GitHub Co-Pilot • MCP Servers • Prompt Engineering • AI Agents

Infrastructure Azure • Cloudflare • Networking • Kubernetes • Docker

DevOps Terraform • Azure DevOps • GitHub Actions • Jenkins • Ansible

Languages TypeScript • Python • C# / .NET • Node.js • Groovy

Databases PostgreSQL • Supabase • CosmosDB • Redis • MongoDB

Education

Graduate Study - Computer Engineering 1996 - 1998

University of Missouri - Columbia

B.Sc. Computer Science 1990 - 1994

Nankai University, China