Chris Yu
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Yu is a versatile software engineer and early-stage builder with a decade of experience focused on 0-to-1 product development for lean teams and pre-seed/seed ventures. He combines hands-on front-end engineering—contributing bug fixes and component enhancements to Palantir’s popular open-source Blueprint UI toolkit—with deep product and platform experience across Palantir and Sequoia’s investor products. His background spans predictive modeling and production ML prototypes for finance and industrial clients, plus platform security and analytics leadership, giving him a rare mix of applied research and product-facing engineering. Based in Palo Alto, he’s self-employed and advising/contracting while seeking a single ambitious startup to invest the next decade of his career. Notably, several of his early deployments at Palantir involved patented quality-detection and optimization MVPs, underscoring a track record of shipping novel, high-impact solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtPhillips Exeter AcademyHarvard-Westlake School
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
blueprint10
typescripts10
component-kit10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
testing9
sass8
css7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/blueprint
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the UI toolkit by fixing bugs and enhancing existing components. Their work included addressing issues with the `Tabs` and `EditableText` components, such as fixing incorrect behavior and adding features. They also made improvements to the landing page's layout and corrected the hostname for GA. The contributions focus on refining the existing components and addressing various aspects of the front-end user interface.
reactblueprintocto-correct-managedsassjavascript
BeamingBaldwin/splendid-simi
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:34 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 days
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