Sean Yen
Software Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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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.
10 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 (152)
displays10
expressjs10
testing10
websocket10
firefox-addon10
webextension10
javascript10
nearley10
firefox10
html10
social-media10
typescript10
schoology10
go10
github-pages10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
SheepTester/gunn-student-sim
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
A simple text-based game that aims to accurately portray the life of a student at Gunn high school.
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 11 months
gunnsatiretext-basedtext-based-game
SheepTester/thingkingland
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
An archive of my first HTML projects
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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