Michelle Yuen
Organizer at ChicagoRuby
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Yuen is an organizer and back-end developer with eight years of experience blending software engineering, developer community leadership, and domain-specific tooling. At Zooniverse she builds and maintains backend systems for large-scale citizen science projects while also organizing ChicagoRuby to foster the local Ruby community. Her technical background includes Salesforce development and onboarding quality control, giving her a strong appreciation for reliable integrations, data quality, and operational workflows. Michelle's early academic work on the Inverse Galois Problem reflects a rigorous mathematical foundation that informs her pragmatic approach to problem solving. Comfortable moving between research, developer-facing platforms, and production engineering, she brings both analytical depth and community-minded collaboration to projects. Based in the United States, she pairs hands-on backend craftsmanship with skills in coordinating people and processes to deliver impactful software.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics Biochemistry, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics Biochemistry at Carleton College
Github Skills (83)
ruby10
api10
rebuild10
counter10
nodejs10
docker10
python9
backend9
react9
cli-application8
statistics8
proxy8
tosca8
caching-proxy8
floating7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yuenmichelle1/yuenmichelle1.github.io
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
zooniverse/eras
May 2023 - Mar 2025
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Contributions:28 reviews, 124 PRs, 349 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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