Arlen Yu
Software Engineer at Instagram
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArlen Yu is a software engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building user-facing and infrastructure systems at scale. Currently at Instagram, he has a track record of shipping product-focused improvements—including rebuilding instagram.com/explore and contributing to clearing pipelines at Stripe during internships. His background spans fast-moving consumer platforms like Pinterest and Nextdoor, where he tackled spam reduction and targeted promotions, and he co-founded TutorOcean, showing entrepreneurial instincts around marketplace design. Comfortable across front-end React work and backend rule engines, he brings a pragmatic full‑stack approach informed by a Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo. Colleagues would describe him as a builder who prefers shipping tangible improvements that narrow the gap between web and native experiences.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (51)
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buttons8
javascript7
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pinterest7
canvas7
react7
fabricjs6
spectacle6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jia-kevin/student-calendar
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 3 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 months
arlen-yu/old-arlen-yu.github.io
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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