Likai Yan
Senior Software Engineer II at Roblox
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLikai Yan is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Menlo Park with 12 years of experience building growth-focused product features and notification systems at scale. Currently at Roblox, he drives discovery and live operations while previously shaping Growth Platform and AI platform experiences at Meta and Oculus. He blends product-oriented engineering with deep systems work—shipping reliable notification pipelines and live ops tooling for massive user bases. Trained with advanced CS degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and a diverse academic background spanning physics, computational math, and political science, he brings cross-disciplinary problem solving to product growth challenges. Notably, his career threads crisis-response and social-good engineering early on into later work optimizing engagement and real-time systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Computational Mathematics, Physics, Computational Mathematics at Wabash CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPolitical Science and Government, Political Science and Government at Yonsei University
Chinese
Github Skills (17)
hook10
translate10
translator10
clipboard10
translation9
reverse-engineering9
python8
ocr8
android-application5
youtube4
reader4
android3
video-player3
dart3
flutter3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
siriuxy/WashU-2_Processor--FPGA
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
siriuxy/img_mosaic_prune_compress
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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