Mengting Yan is a software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native developer tools and production systems, now working on Box’s Metadata team in Mountain View. She has a strong research-to-production track record from multiple roles at IBM Research—authoring prototypes like Wskflow and contributing to projects such as Kui and Super—and most recently delivered sell-side trade processing systems at Bloomberg. Mengting combines systems and tooling expertise (Kubernetes, serverless, hybrid cloud) with practical product experience in financial infrastructure and metadata services. She holds an MS in Computer Science from NYU and a BS in CS & Mathematics from UIUC, blending rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering. A recurring theme in her career is translating research prototypes into robust developer-facing tools that streamline complex workflows.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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