Alan Sun
Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Sun is a software engineer with nine years of experience building web-scale products across consumer and experimentation platforms, currently contributing at Airbnb in San Francisco. His career includes engineering roles at Optimizely and Yelp where he worked on A/B testing and user-facing services, grounded by early systems and web development work. Alan holds dual degrees in Linguistics and Computer Science from Rutgers, a combination that informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to problem solving and clear technical communication. He brings full-stack experience from front-end JavaScript to backend systems and has a track record of moving features from prototype to production in fast-paced environments. Colleagues value his ability to translate ambiguous product goals into reliable implementations and to iterate quickly while maintaining quality. Though not outwardly public on GitHub, his steady progression through photo‑heavy, experimentation-driven companies suggests deep familiarity with scalable feature rollout and analytics-driven development.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
English, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
optimizely9
immutablejs7
redux7
react7
data-structures6
component-library6
flux6
typescript6
javascript6
reactive5
flux-architecture4
state-management4
css2
patch2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
optimizely/javascript
May 2017 - May 2017
JavaScript Style Guide
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
jscssjavascriptjavascript-stylestyle-guide
alansun-optimizely/alansun-optimizely.github.io
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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