Alvin Yuan
Senior Software Engineer at Vanta
California, United States
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Top SchoolAlvin Yuan is a product-minded Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with 11 years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems across embedded devices, mobile, and server backends. He has led device-focused engineering at Brilliant—owning the Qt/C++ device UI, re-architecting on-device Python asyncio processing, and unifying distributed state and home automation logic—while earlier driving backend features and experimentation infrastructure at Shopkick. He excels at surfacing complexity early, aligning trade-offs with product teams, and converting ambitious requirements into pragmatic MVPs. Based in California, Alvin combines deep systems and concurrency expertise with strong mentoring and cross-team collaboration skills, and has a track record of improving integrations (WebRTC, HomeKit, Alexa) and multifamily installation workflows that span server, mobile, and device boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (2014) Master of Science (M.S.) (2015) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (2014) Master of Science (M.S.) (2015) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHenry M Gunn High
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Github contributions (2)
AlvinYuan/Internet-of-Seats-and-Spaces
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
AlvinYuan/analyzers
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:22 commits in 16 days
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