Su Yan
Senior Software Engineer at TikTok
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSu Yan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 13 years of experience building scalable consumer products at tech leaders including TikTok, Airbnb, Facebook, and Amazon. Since 2020 she has driven features and systems at TikTok after rising through senior engineering roles at Airbnb, blending front-end craftsmanship with large-scale product engineering. Her background spans full-stack development, UX-aware front-end work (evidenced by a personally maintained responsive blog site), and hands-on contributions across fast-paced consumer platforms. She holds a CS bachelor’s from North China Electric Power University and a CS master’s from USC, pairing strong academic foundations with extensive industry practice. Colleagues know her for shipping polished, user-facing features and for maintaining a personal site that showcases attention to detail and practical static-site engineering. Su brings a practical, product-minded approach to engineering problems and a proven record of delivering at scale in highly iterative environments.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at North China Electric Power University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
markdown-it9
markdown9
responsive-design9
javascript8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
suyan/suyan.github.io
Apr 2013 - Jan 2020
My Blog.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:319 commits, 20 PRs, 106 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Su appears to be primarily focused on developing the front-end of a blog, likely using a static site generator. They implemented the initial blog structure by creating `index.html` and `_layouts/default.html` files. They subsequently added functionality for displaying posts, and navigation, including the addition of an archive page and a table of contents. The user also incorporated styling with the addition of base css and responsive design, improving the overall look and feel of the site.
my-blogjekyll
fuhongxue/suyan.github.io
Dec 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:80 commits in 8 months
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