Summary
Shannen Y is a Frontend Developer with eight years of experience building user-focused web applications, currently driving frontend initiatives at Fidelity Investments. She specializes in React, TypeScript, Angular, and modern frontend toolchains, with a track record of migrating legacy codebases to hooks, introducing TypeScript and SASS, and raising Jest test coverage from 0% to 80% in a year. As a founding frontend engineer at a startup, she combined analytics (Pendo, Datadog) and ML-derived data to ship features that improved client retention and NPS, and she won consecutive internal hackathons for data-driven search innovations. She pairs hands-on implementation with mentorship, having onboarded and coached junior engineers and authored documentation and component libraries for reuse. Prior roles span full-stack work with React/Django and CMS integrations, giving her a strong product sensibility alongside engineering rigor. Based in Dallas, she blends analytics-informed product decisions with practical engineering leadership to deliver measurable UX and business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Fullstack Academy
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Applied Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Applied Psychology at Queens College
English, Chinese