Shu Yan
Software Engineer at Facebook
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShu Yan is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale, enterprise-grade systems, currently contributing at Facebook after a long tenure as a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Cadence. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M and combines deep theoretical grounding in data structures and algorithms with extensive hands-on C++ development across IC design and EDA domains. His career includes impactful R&D roles at Synopsys and Freescale, reflecting strong expertise in performance-critical and system-level software. Based in San Jose, he brings an engineer-researcher mindset that consistently bridges academic rigor and production delivery. An underappreciated strength is his track record of navigating complex product lifecycles—from research internships at IBM to shipping commercial EDA tools—making him adept at turning hard problems into reliable, scalable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Engineering, Ph.D Computer Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityMS. Electrical Engineering, MS. Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (34)
imdb10
resumable9
image-hosting8
firefox-addon8
animation7
hexo7
chrome-extension7
chrome7
mediainfo7
plugin7
google-chrome7
valine6
torrent6
component-based6
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dongshuyan/Auto_Upload
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Upload torrent to PT sites Automatically.
Contributions:101 commits, 58 PRs, 86 pushes in 2 months
sitestorrent
dongshuyan/doubaninfo
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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