Alex Yan
Senior Software Engineer at Foodsmart
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Yan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building web and game software, currently focused on Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and React.js. Based in Las Vegas, he has progressed from game and mobile development to technical leadership roles, including Tech Lead at Wonderschool and recent senior engineering positions at Academia.edu and Foodsmart. His background spans browser-based TypeScript/JavaScript games and Unity work, giving him a strong front-end sensibility alongside backend systems expertise. Alex has experience shipping product-facing features across startups and mid-size companies, and often bridges product and engineering to move projects from prototype to production. He brings a practical, full-stack mindset informed by early hands-on event organization and community-building during his university years at UC Santa Barbara. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices and steady delivery on customer-facing services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Chinese, Japanese, German
Github Skills (62)
visual-studio-code10
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
electron10
microsoft10
expo10
typescript10
microfrontend10
vscode-extension10
editor10
visual-studio10
vscode10
android10
weex10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FrickenHamster/kantan-desu
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
react native anime app
Contributions:17 PRs, 41 pushes, 24 branches in 9 months
react-nativereactanime-appanime
FrickenHamster/FoodApp185
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
flutterfood-appandroidfood
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