Sean Yen
Software Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSean Yen is a software engineer based in Palo Alto with nine years of experience focused on front-end web development and full-stack integrations. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, where he also worked as a graduate student researcher studying undergraduate student outcomes. Sean has shipped production features at Tesla and TikTok, migrated mixed Go and React/TypeScript codebases for maintainability, and automated large-scale data cleanup and visualization projects using Python, Julia, D3, and Tableau. He brings a practical eye for reliability and performance—optimizing TypeScript React apps and adapting C++/Rust to WebAssembly—while staying curious about UX and analytics. Notably, he translated complex university degree rules into interactive visual tools that exposed hidden trends and root causes, blending research insight with engineering execution.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego4.44, 4.44 at Gunn High School
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (184)
displays10
firefox-addon10
webextension10
javascript10
browser10
nearley10
firefox10
typescript10
schoology10
github-pages10
node-server10
userscripts10
strongly-typed10
user-interface10
lark10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
SheepTester/hello-world
Sep 2016 - Feb 2023
Innocent first test.
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 712 commits in 6 years 5 months
test-firsttestinguserscriptsflashcardsuserstyles
SheepTester/gamepro5.github.io
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.