Karyna Yen
Backend Engineering Co-op at HubSpot
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaryna Yen is a backend-focused software engineer and Northeastern CS student with eight years of varied engineering experience across web, cloud, and developer-experience domains. She has shipped production features and automation at companies like Atlassian and HubSpot, cutting development cycles dramatically and improving localization and testing workflows. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript, React/Vue, Kotlin, and cloud tooling, she pairs frontend polish with backend systems and data pipelines. Beyond code, she’s led outreach and teaching initiatives—running large hackathons, workshops, and onboarding documentation—to amplify team impact and developer adoption. A detail-oriented problem solver with a 4.0 GPA and an eye for developer tooling, she describes herself on GitHub as a "lover of spherical and regular cows," hinting at a playful curiosity for theoretical and practical engineering alike.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Northeastern UniversityStudy Abroad in Taiwan, 4.0/4.0, Study Abroad in Taiwan, 4.0/4.0 at National Tsing Hua University4.57, 4.57 at Los Altos High School
English, Spanish, ChineseProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
karynayen/KarynaPortfolio2
Jul 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
karynayen/Senior-Quote
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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