Summary
Yves Shum is a versatile full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web applications and trading tools. He is currently a Full Stack Engineer at Medra, after previously leading a six-person team as Senior Software Engineer at Diffuse Inc and co-founding Sesame Labs and Byto. His tech breadth includes React/React-Native, Vue, Node.js/TypeScript, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS) with MongoDB and SQL, backed by BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. He has a track record of pragmatic infrastructure automation, including migrating backend Linux infrastructure to Docker-based solutions that cut hardware costs by 80% and reduced over-provisioning by 70% at UChicago CSIL, and building tools at PayPal that saved hundreds of man-hours while strengthening incident response. Based in South San Francisco, Yves combines hands-on engineering with leadership to turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable systems, and he has entrepreneurial experience guiding early-stage ventures as co-founder and tech lead.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Chicago
International Baccalaureate, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, International Baccalaureate, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Yew Chung International School
English, Chinese, Chinese