Summary
Joyce Yan is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems across large tech and mission-driven organizations. She has moved from internships at Facebook, Snapchat, and Google into engineering roles at Spotify and Valon, and now contributes to platform and product engineering at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Joyce brings experience shipping scalable user-facing and backend services in high-velocity teams and is comfortable navigating both startup and enterprise cultures. Her career shows a pattern of joining companies during growth phases, helping bridge prototype-to-production gaps and operationalize features. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from USC and prefers direct outreach over third-party recruiter contact. Colleagues would describe her as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and skilled at turning complex requirements into reliable software.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Computer Science at University of Southern California