Steven Yuan
Graduate Student
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Yuan is a solution-focused software engineer with 8 years of experience building distributed, fault-tolerant systems and developer tooling that scale to millions of events. He has worked on high-throughput order management at Amazon and maintained the open-source Smithy code-generation toolchain at AWS, contributing to widely used SDKs including Go and TypeScript. Proficient across languages from Java and Go to Rust and a bit of Haskell, he specializes in code generation, compilers, and observability-driven distributed systems. Steven balances hands-on engineering—from scoping customer needs to implementing technical designs—with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation. Currently a graduate student at FTTA in Anaheim, he also documents his journey and engineering learnings on a weekly blog. An interesting quirk: his profile banner was shot on a hike in Montserrat, Spain.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rutgers University–New BrunswickHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Holmdel High School
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Github Skills (11)
abnf10
code-generation10
go10
aws10
idl10
smithy10
aws-sdk10
api-design9
json-serialization9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
smithy-lang/smithy
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Smithy is a protocol-agnostic interface definition language and set of tools for generating clients, servers, and documentation for any programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:170 reviews, 13 commits, 56 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on updating the Smithy IDL ABNF documentation to align with the RFC specifications. They modified the ABNF for various sections, including control, metadata, and shapes, ensuring accurate representation of the IDL grammar. The user also made significant updates related to the HTTP traits and their selectors within the Smithy model, updating documentation and code to match the changes. Additionally, they addressed the build info plugin, refining the handling of traits.
smithyagnosticsmithy-modelsprogramming-languageclients
aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 4 commits, 28 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the AWS SDK for Go (v2) repository, focusing on upgrades and enhancements related to Smithy IDL (Interface Definition Language) and code generation. Their commits included upgrading Smithy versions, integrating the Smithy Gradle Plugin, and adding support for JSON name serialization/deserialization within union shapes. Additionally, the user made changes to deserialization logic and serialization code related to AWS services, including SSM and API Gateway exports.
golangaws-sdksdkgoaws
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