Steven Yang
Founding Engineer at Fulcrum
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Yang is a founding engineer and backend-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling systems from 0→1 to production loads exceeding 100K RPS. He combines full-stack instincts—contributions to Box’s UI components and earlier MEAN-stack startup work—with deep backend expertise in performance optimization, rate-limiting, caching, and observability. At Alchemy he led work that cut cost-to-serve by >80%, reduced API latency to <50ms, and helped design shuffle-sharding and Redis scaling strategies used company-wide. He’s comfortable running incident response for high-severity outages and holds patents related to blockchain request caching and intelligent testing. Based in Milpitas, CA, Steven pairs startup grit (cofounder experience and seed fundraising) with enterprise-grade execution across cloud, distributed systems, and real-time APIs.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
uid10
javascript10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-elements10
react-component9
react-components9
user-interface8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
box/box-ui-elements
Apr 2019 - May 2020
React Components for Box's Design System and Pluggable Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the UI elements library by fixing bugs and implementing new features related to the content uploader and activity feed components. They updated the chunked upload threshold, fixed issues with resuming uploads, and addressed problems in the activity feed related to tasks. Furthermore, they added support for multi-file tasks within the content sidebar. These contributions indicate a focus on improving user interactions and data presentation.
box-previewreactbox-content-pickerboxjavascript
stevenzyang/stevenzyang.github.io
Feb 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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