Helen Yan
Senior Software Engineer at Wealthfront
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHelen Yan is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building backend services and product-facing features, currently advancing Wealthfront’s platform after progressing from Backend Software Engineer. A UC Berkeley Computer Science graduate with a chemistry minor, she combines strong engineering fundamentals with data-driven analysis honed from consulting and research roles that ranged from retail forecasting for Levi’s to computational chemistry. Comfortable across stacks—Go, Python, PHP, and React—she’s shipped infrastructure and front-end projects, led open-source integrations, and improved caching and networking systems at scale. Her background leading a competitive engineering student team and managing multi-thousand-dollar budgets speaks to both technical leadership and operational rigor. Notably, she brings cross-disciplinary curiosity: applying statistical analysis and lab‑style experimentation mindsets to software problems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Palo Alto High School
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
helen-yan/helen-yan.github.io
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
michaelhfls/cs182
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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