Dean Yu
Director of Engineering
- Role
- Director of Engineering at Shutterfly
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dean Yu
Continuously improving engineering efficiency
Experience
Director of Engineering
Sep 2012 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Transformed a team of release engineers into highly effective DevOps practitioners by adding and hiring software development and architecture roles, distributed across three time zones- Hired, developed, and promoted individuals from Senior through Principal levels- Defined product roadmap that- decentralized release management, increasing the rate of releases per year by 40x- enables application teams to own their own continuous deployment pipelines - Operate release infrastructure for Shutterfly Consumer business line at 99% availability - Invested in infrastructure improvements that resulted in 99% availability of test environments- Spearheaded adoption of containerization technologies, leading to successful production service deployments in 2017 with no site outages- Provide technology and product leadership in Shutterfly’s cloud transformation journey - Lead peak season change review board- Directed successful, incident-free migration of the Shutterfly Consumer site out of the data center into the cloud- Drove multiple cost efficiency, security, and transformation initiatives - Leader of organizational transformations to break down silos between engineering, product and infrastructure
Education
University of Michigan
Computer Engineering
1986 — 1991
Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Jenkins
- Build Automation
- Open Source
- Architecture
- Agile Methodologies
- Web Services
- Tomcat
- Java
- Perl
- Unix
- Subversion
- Distributed Systems
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Rest
- Architectures
- Software Development
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