Summary
Diane Yang is a design-oriented software engineer with 13 years of experience building user-focused mobile and full-stack features, currently improving how people discover and share places at Google Maps. She combines strong iOS expertise with product thinking, having driven data-informed monetization mechanics at Duolingo and rebuilt performant front-ends at HubSpot and Addepar. Diane’s background in teaching computer science at Harvard and shipping cross-disciplinary features shows she balances technical rigor with clear UX and maintainability. Comfortable across Swift, frontend frameworks, and backend systems, she excels at turning user needs into polished, testable products. Based in Tokyo but rooted in U.S. engineering cultures, she brings a global perspective to product design and thoughtful tradeoffs between growth and mission-driven constraints.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Harvard College
English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese