Frankie Yuan
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrankie Yuan is a software engineer with 8 years of experience who blends strong academic rigor—MS in ECE from CMU (3.98 GPA) and a CS BS from UIUC—with hands-on production work at Meta and internships at ByteDance and Sina. He builds reliable backend systems, data pipelines, and ML infrastructure, and has driven vulnerability management and content-understanding integrations for Facebook/Instagram/Threads. Frankie has notable open-source contributions to PrairieLearn, where he led group-collaboration features and database improvements used across top US universities, demonstrating both product-minded design and low-level database work. His background in software testing and flaky-test detection, plus experience reducing ML training failures by 30%, shows a practical focus on system robustness and measurable impact. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs research experience in social media and misinformation with production engineering skills across Python, React/GraphQL, Hack, and SQL.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.98/4.00, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.98/4.00 at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (6)
postgresql10
sql10
back-end-development10
autograd10
javascript9
nodejs8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PrairieLearn/PrairieLearn
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Online problem-driven learning system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 19 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Frankie primarily focused on implementing and improving group support features within the assessment system. This included adding functionality for collaborative assessments, updating group management, and enhancing the user interface for group interactions. They also worked on database-related modifications, such as changing database joins and ensuring correct display of group information. These contributions significantly impacted the user experience and system functionality of the group work system.
machine-learningproblemassessmentdrivingautograders
frankyhao/frankyhao.github.io
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:115 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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