Michael Yong
Software Engineer at Figma
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Yong is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable web products, currently shipping features at Figma after a five-year tenure at Quora. He has a strong full-stack background and practical systems sense, demonstrated by contributions to the popular open-source PouchDB project where he refactored core adapter code, fixed merge tests, and implemented _all_dbs support across adapters. His early internships at Google and Quora focused on improving collaboration, accessibility, and performance of large-scale consumer products, shaping a user-focused engineering approach. Based in Mountain View and educated at the National University of Singapore, he blends rigorous CS fundamentals with production-hardened engineering. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented with a knack for finding simple, reliable replacements for brittle code patterns (e.g., replacing JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(...)) with robust utility methods). He brings consistent delivery, open-source fluency, and a practical emphasis on maintainability to product engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (8)
databases10
couchdb10
javascript10
pouchdb10
jquery10
database10
testing9
json9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pouchdb/pouchdb
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the PouchDB project by integrating jQuery's `extend` method and refactoring code to utilize this method, replacing instances of `JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(` operations. Their work spanned multiple adapter files, including leveldb, websql, idb, and pouch.merge. Additionally, the user fixed tests within `pouch.merge`, ensuring the project's functionality and consistency. Furthermore, they implemented and integrated the _all_dbs database functionality across various adapters.
pocketjavascriptdatabasepouchdbcouchdb
quora/parsecss
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Convert CSS to a Simple JSON Structure
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 11 months
json-structurecssjson-simpleinline-cssjson
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