Molly Yu
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMolly Yu is a software engineer based in NYC with seven years of experience building backend distributed systems and full-stack applications, currently focused on backend engineering at Datadog. She has shipped developer tooling and CLI features at Shopify—contributing to the popular shopify-cli—and built data-driven front-end experiences at Redfin that improved SEO and user engagement. Her background spans cloud and security-focused work (Kafka authentication, DNS-based threat mitigation) as well as machine learning and automation projects, reflecting a strong operational and systems mindset. A Waterloo Software Engineering graduate, Molly pairs hands-on implementation with an eye for developer experience and measurable product impact.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at TOPS Program at Marc Garneau Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Software Engineering - BSE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering - BSE, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
command-line-interface10
nodejs10
shopify-cli10
command-line10
cli10
ruby9
testing8
javascript7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 154 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Molly contributed to the development of the Shopify CLI, primarily focusing on enhancing the command-line interface functionality. They added a "hello" command with language support and integrated organization information. Further work involved adding a custom port flag for the node serve command within the node project type, including tests and related messaging updates. They also made minor adjustments like fixing CLI capitalization and fixing unit tests.
clishopify-clifasteroclifshopify
molly-yu/DabbleGame
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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