Yvonne Linda Leung

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VP of Engineering at Indigo Labs · Mobile apps

Indigo Labs
Vancouver, BC · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
Rotman School of Management
English
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Indigo Labs, focused on mobile apps. Wrote the Jetpack Compose service that now handles 15 million requests a day. Shipped 11 launches on the Android team without a rollback. Before that: PwC and Wealthsimple. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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Skills
Jetpack ComposeGradleAndroid performanceKotlinMVVMCoroutines
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8 mobile engineer roles open on the Android team in Vancouver

Role
Mobile engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$139k-$193k + equity
Team
Android, 12 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with Android performance Production experience with Gradle Ownership of something end to end
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp C$167k-C$221k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Vancouver, BCjetpack composegradleandroid performance
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Mar 2024 - Present
    Indigo Labs · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Led the migration of 26 services to Kotlin.
    • Cut cold-start time on low-end Android phones by 37%.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
    PwC · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Moved 79% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Senior Android Engineer
    Mar 2018 - Oct 2021
    Wealthsimple · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Built the experimentation framework 40 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the MVVM service that now handles 13 million requests a day.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
    KPMG · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
    • Backed 27 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  5. Android Engineer
    May 2014 - Oct 2016
    Lululemon · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Shipped 12 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
    • Took crash-free sessions from 98.7% to 99.9%.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from Android
2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling mobile apps.

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Education

  1. Rotman School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2001 - 2003
  2. OCAD University
    BDes, Electronics and Communication
    1994 - 1998

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