// still writes code every day
Daniel Yu
AI-Driven Technical Leader
Hands-on technologist. 20+ years shipping products. Now building 10x faster with AI.
$ whoami
hands_on_builder | team_leader | ai_productivity_advocate
$ cat tools.txt
Claude Code | Co-Pilot | Azure | Kubernetes | TypeScript
// career.history
Experience
Master Shifu
Caution Tape Robotics Club
- 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
Board Secretary
CanSTEAM Foundation
- 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
Senior DevOps Consultant
TD Bank
- 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
Hybrid API Consultant
Royal Bank of Canada
- 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
CTO
BeeShop Solutions Inc.
- 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
CTO, Co-Founder
InfraDog Inc.
- 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
Director, IT Operations
Orthotic Holdings Inc.
- 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
System Management Specialist
IBM
- Deployed Microsoft SCOM for TD, Rogers, Government of Manitoba, Manulife, ATB Financial
- Enterprise change management processes
// earlier_positions.collapsed
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)
// tech.stack
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
// passion.project
World Champion
Robotics Coach
Beyond enterprise infrastructure, I coach 100+ youth robotics teams, teaching the next generation C++, Python, and AI coding with Claude Code.
VEX IQ World Championship • Guinness World Record largest robot competition
class RoboticsCoach { teams_coached = 100+; years_coaching = 7; championships = [ "2019", "2021", "2023" ]; teach(students) { // C++, Python, AI } }
// education
Background
Graduate Study - Computer Engineering
University of Missouri - Columbia
1996 - 1998
B.Sc. Computer Science
Nankai University, China
1990 - 1994
// let's_connect
Get in Touch
Open to DevOps consulting, cloud architecture, or mentoring discussions.