Albert Yi
Senior Principal Software Engineer at West Monroe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Yi is a Senior Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 16 years of experience designing and delivering large web applications across Rails, Node.js, and TypeScript ecosystems. He has led backend architecture and feature work at companies from startups to enterprise — notable stints include Salesforce, Kabam, and his current role at West Monroe — and consistently focuses on maintainable, performant, and testable systems. An active contributor to the danbooru Rails project, he has hands-on experience with content moderation, media processing, and data-model improvements for high-volume image boards. Albert pairs deep full-stack engineering skills with operational automation and SSO/infrastructure background developed early in his career, enabling smooth production rollouts. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and brings a pragmatic curiosity for “Turing-complete” systems that drives continual language and tooling exploration.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (5)
ruby-rails10
rails10
postgresql10
ruby10
database-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danbooru/danbooru
Feb 2010 - Oct 2019
A taggable image board written in Rails.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 4880 commits, 514 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the Danbooru back-end, making changes to the data models, controllers, and views. Their work focused on enhancing features like post moderation with the addition of a "Banned" functionality and handling database improvements. Furthermore, they interacted with the model, making changes for handling various content types, including adding support for different photo and video files and the corresponding processing code.
railsrubyboorudanbooruimageboard
r888888888/dtext_rb
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
compiled dtext parser extension
Contributions:85 commits, 18 PRs, 112 pushes in 2 years 6 months
parser
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